Lawn Mowing
Mowing your grass at the proper height helps the overall health and appearance of your lawn. When cutting your grass, Showcase Lawn Works recommends you never cut off more than one third of the grass blade at one time. When too much is cut off, stress to the plant occurs which causes thinning and yellowing of the grass – resulting in an undesirable appearance to your lawn. Showcase recommends a normal mowing height of 3 – 3.5 inches in the spring season. For summertime mowing, it is advantageous to cut your grass at an even higher height. Since there is less rain/water in the summer, keeping the grass at a slightly longer height helps shade the soil which will keep your lawn greener. To promote a thicker lawn with better weed suppression support, cut your grass at a higher height.

Lawn Mowing Strategy
Most importantly, keep mower blades sharp! When blades become dull, they do not cut precisely. Dull blades damage the grass by ripping it and this causes yellowing of the lawn after cutting. Mowing a lawn more than once a week might be necessary when the grass grows quickly. As a guideline, the goal is to not cut more than one third of the length of grass at one time.

Bagging or Not Bagging Clippings
Bagging clippings while mowing is not always required. A moderate amount of clippings is not unhealthy for your lawn. On the contrary, it can be beneficial to the soil by adding nitrogen back into it. However, large amounts of grass clippings that lay, on top of the lawn, in clumps or piles are unhealthy for the lawn underneath. Large amounts of cut grass laying on top of good grass can cause the healthy grass to die due to suffocation.

Mowing Results
After cutting your lawn at the proper height for a year, an improvement will be seen in its overall appearance. On the other hand, when a lawn is cut too short, the effects will be quite apparent in the dramatic decline in the health of the lawn. An unhealthy lawn will start to thin and take on an “off” color. In addition to that problem, bare patches will appear where grass has died. Other negative effects will include more weed breakthroughs along with common occurrences of disease/insect damage. Mowing your grass at the proper height with sharp blades will help your lawn stay healthy and have a great appearance.

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