How Short Is Too Short?

No, this isn’t another short joke.  There is a right cutting height for the grass in your commercial property landscaping.

How you cut grass can make a big difference in your lawn’s quality.  Lawn mowing sounds like a simple enough thing. Your staff just has to gas up the mower, yank the cord and ride around in rectangles for awhile, and the deed is done. Ah, but the lawn connoisseur knows there’s a lot more to it than that. How you mow, when you mow and even what you do with the clippings can make a big difference in how your lawn performs. In fact, mowing the lawn is probably the most underrated and overlooked part of good commercial lawn care.

The biggest mowing miscue the typical staff gardener makes is cutting grass too short. Some people downright scalp the lawn, using the putting-green look as the ideal model. That’s a bad idea commercial for several reasons:

It increases moisture and nutrition demands as the grass tries to fight back from near total decapitation, thus increasing your costs.

It reduces the amount of chlorophyll available to manufacture energy to fuel the grass roots. (Longer blades mean more chlorophyll per grass plant and consequently healthy grass.)

It allows the soil to dry out faster, which increases the ill effects of our typical dry weather.

And, weeds germinate better and get off to a faster start when taller grass blades aren’t shading them out.

What really makes a mown lawn look good is the evenness of the cut, not its height. Most people are just as happy with a 3-inch-tall evenly cut lawn as a 1-inch-tall evenly cut lawn.

Rather than having to worry about the lawn and look of your commercial property you can let Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance do all the work for you and take the burden off your shoulders all together.  Give us a call at 623-848-8277 and let’s talk about it.

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