Austin Lawn Service

By Author: Brooks Richmond
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For many lawn owners, mowing the lawn is a simple task, which requires little thought, and some sweat and labour to get the job done as and when is needed, depending on the season and how often the turf requires mowing. On the surface, these thoughts are true, mowing the grass is simple, and laborious and is fairly straight forward. However, if we look just beneath the surface of this otherwise seemingly easy job, we quickly see that we all should put just a little more planning into how we mow our lawns, how often we mow, the heights we cut at, and to adjusting our lawn mowing for different lawn conditions in our yards. And once we have this basic planning right, we can then continue to mow our lawns with ease, while improving our overall lawn health.

Having a short cut and manicured style of lawn will require special maintenance from the lawn owner. The lawn will need to kept in the best of health at all times in order to continue to thrive at these low heights. A yearly fertilizing program is vital to keep the sod healthy and green, as well as a watering regimen which aims to promote a very deep root system to allow ...
... the lawn to tolerate heat and drought conditions.

Lawns that are cut low are very prone to drying out of the topsoil underneath the lawn, as well as the burning of the short leaf and thatch layer of the sod when we keep our lawns at these low heights. And its only when we have a deep and healthy root system with these short cut lawns that will allow them to thrive in these conditions.

Lawns cut low are also far less shade tolerant than lawns which are maintained at higher cutting heights, so we should always remember to raise our lawn mowing heights whenever our lawns begin to encroach into shaded areas.

Lawn Scalping is the final issue with lawns kept at low mowing heights. These lawns will need to be mowed more frequently to ensure a regular and small amount of clippings are being removed at each mowing, otherwise our lawns will become thatched a little quicker than other lawns, and will scalp the sod by cutting into its thatch layer at the next lawn mowing service.