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Lawn Care Tips: Mowing

Mowing

Correct mowing practices are the best way of ensuring a healthy lawn. Cutting at the correct height encourages healthier roots, helps conserve water during dry periods, and ensures the grass plant remains healthy, whilst at the same time discouraging weeds.

Here are our top lawn cutting tips:

Cutting the lawn too short (scalping) does not prevent grass from growing quickly; in fact cutting your lawn too short can encourage lawn diseases, moss and weed growth.
Never cut your lawn less than 25mm (1 inch). Ideally the grass should be left at between 1 and 2 inches, depending on the current weather conditions.Try not to cut more than one third of the total height of the grass plant in one go.
Choose the correct lawn mower for your lawn. Cylinder mowers are only really suitable for perfectly flat lawns with finer grass types. Please feel free to consult your local GreenThumb expert prior to buying your new mower.
Keep your lawn mower regularly serviced – a good cut requires sharp blades. Always try to remove grass clippings from the lawn – these clippings encourage lawn thatch, on which moss will thrive.
Don’t fill the mower with petrol while you are on the lawn – spilling fuel on the grass will scorch the grass plant.
If you are using an electric mower, use a circuit breaker and be very careful not to run over the wire.
If you are fed up of cutting the lawn so often, speak to your local GreenThumb operator about our new SlowMow treatment programme - comes as a standard treatment with the Complete Service Programme.
If you are expecting a visit from your local GreenThumb branch, please do not cut the lawn for 3 or 4 days either side of the treatment - this helps the treatment to be as effective as possible.