When to start mowing your lawn after winter
Lawn & Garden Care : How to Mow the Lawn After Winter
I'm bill Elzey with showplace lawns
how to mow your lawn after winter used
to we would always what they called
scalp the lawn cut cut it that first cut
just as low as you could probably get it
across there and then that was to get
rid of all the stuff that was hanging
around through the winter get rid of it
and then bring the grass up from there
since we practiced nowadays of getting a
nice tall thick grass as coverage to
keep it from drying out to be more
healthy and so forth
we don't do that anymore and the reason
being is this grass goes into shock
every time it's mowed if you're gonna
spend the entire spring summer and fall
getting that grass to get nice and thick
why would you want to come back and
shave that all off and start over again
we can accomplish the same thing by not
scalping it but by lowering the cut in
the st. Augustine lawn for instance if
you're cutting it at a three and a half
inch height through the course of the
summer in the fall you could bring that
back your first mowing to a two inch cut
cut it a couple of times at two inches
and then raise it cut it once or twice
raise it again so as by into May you're
cutting it back at that three and a half
inch height the same way on your Bermuda
grasses cut it a little lower but don't
cut it real low you accomplished in
getting rid of the old growth getting
that jumpstart on it to get it growing
again but you do not need to cut it at a
scalping rate leave a little bit of
height in your grass and you're
accomplishing the same thing by getting
rid of the old stuff and getting it
started mooing you
these are some ways this is the way to
cut it after winter
