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- Mow the lawn - the 5 best tips and 5 mistakes
- Tip 1: Regular mowing
- Tip 2: Set the perfect cutting height
- Tips
- Tip 3: Never cut in wet weather
- Tip 4: In principle, mow with sharp knives and high speed
- Tip 5: Do not leave clippings
- Error 1: cutting the lawn too soon
- Error 2: Mowing the lawn too short
- Error 3: Lawning under blazing sun
- Error 4: Enter undrawn area
- Error 5: Lawn mowing set ahead of time
- Tips & Tricks
Mow the lawn - the 5 best tips and 5 mistakes
The perfectly mowed lawn ennobles every gardener. Of course, the velvet carpet will not be presented to you. It is important to note a few golden rules when mowing the lawn. We have put together the 5 best tips and 5 mistakes for you.
Tip 1: Regular mowing
Periodic lawn mowing creates the basis for a dreamlike, dense grass area. The more regularly mowed, the better the blades get used to the ideal cutting line. This results in a robust scar density with an advantageous effect on the photosynthetic capacity. Stress situations of any kind cope with such a lawn effortlessly. How often ideally mowing is determined by grass variety, seed mixture and location. The following information serves as a guide:
Tip 2: Set the perfect cutting height
Hand in hand with the question of how often mowing is the topic of optimal cutting height. As a thought support, the 'one-third rule' has proven itself. Then a maximum of one third of the grass height should be mowed.The type of grass as well as the prevailing weather determine which height is to be considered as ideal value. The following table serves as orientation for the most common grass genera:
When mowing, follow the one-third rule, mowing to an ideal height of 40mm when the stalks reach 60mm in growth.
Tips
To determine the actual cutting height of your lawnmower, you do not have to measure the individual grass blades. This is much less complicated: just place the mower on a level surface and use the measuring tape or rule to determine the distance between the knives and the floor.
Tip 3: Never cut in wet weather
When it rains, the lawnmower should remain in the tool shed. If a lawn is mowed when wet, no clean cut is achieved. In addition, the clippings clumped and the lawnmower is strained excessively. On top of that, the wheels of a weighty motor lawn mower sink into the wet ground and damage the grass roots.
Tip 4: In principle, mow with sharp knives and high speed
German hobby gardeners still favor the motor-driven sickle mower for lawn mowing. In order for the rotating knives to conjure a harmonious cut, they should be as sharp as possible. If the cut surfaces are very frayed, the knives belong to the specialist workshop for regrinding. In addition, the winter break should be used regularly to sharpen the cutting unit.
The height of the speed of the lawnmower engine also has a decisive influence on the sectional image. If the knife bar rotates at a speed of 3,000 rpm, you will get a grassy area peeled out of the egg.
Tip 5: Do not leave clippings
If you do not use a collection basket when mowing the lawn, the clippings will be spread over the entire area. While mulching is one of the most fundamental care tasks in the ornamental and ornamental garden, this circumstance on the lawn has a counterproductive effect. Among the grass clippings, fungal spores and other pathogens find ideal living conditions to explode from here.
It is therefore obligatory to sweep up and dispose of the remains with the rake after each cutting. However, this premise does not apply if you cut the lawn with a mulching mower. This crushes the clippings into tiny pieces that act as a natural fertilizer.
Error 1: cutting the lawn too soon
As the winter comes to an end, the lawn is reminiscent of an outgrown haircut. Understandably, ambitious home gardeners can not wait to cut the lawn for the first time. If you start too early now, you are doing a disservice to your green business card. These characteristics help you to recognize the ideal time for the first grass clippings of the season:
If you want to know exactly, add all temperatures above 0 degrees Celsius from January. If the total is 180, the time is ripe for the first lawn mowing and subsequent scarifying.
Error 2: Mowing the lawn too short
Every year during the holiday season in German hobby gardens the picture of the yellow discolored grass is rife. The reason is too short a cut after returning from vacation. If the lawn was allowed to grow unhindered for several weeks, the vegetation point shifted upwards. Now mowed in one go to the minimum height, the lawn is in a state of shock. How to handle it correctly:
Error 3: Lawning under blazing sun
If summery warm temperatures and bright sunlight come together, the time of day for lawn mowing will be carefully chosen. If the lawn is mown at lunchtime, the stalks will burn on the cuts within minutes. The result is a brownish-yellow turf that is difficult to recover.
Ideally, cut the lawn in the cooler morning or evening hours. In order not to get into a clinch with the neighbors, the statutory rest periods must be taken into account.
Error 4: Enter undrawn area
Actually, you had all of the top 5 tips heeded and yet comes after mowing an uneven cut out? In this case, a widespread mistake has crept in, which goes unnoticed in the labor zealous of lawn care. If the grass blades are depressed shortly before cutting, they will not set up in time. The lawn mower blades do not detect these locations, resulting in a wavy area.
Error 5: Lawn mowing set ahead of time
As the garden year nears the end, one of the most common mistakes around lawn mowing comes to light. Aware that the lawn should go into the cold season long enough, it does not mow far too early. How to do it right:
Ideally, you have our little table at hand to read the optimal cutting height for the winter time. By the way, there is nothing wrong with removing the remaining foliage with the help of the lawn mower as the year progresses. As long as the blades of grass are not mowed at the same time, you can use an excellent tool as a replacement for the leaf vacuum cleaner.
Tips & Tricks
Do you know the difference between a sickle mower and a reel mower? The most commonly used sickle mower in Germany beats off the grass tips with rotating knives. The reel mower, on the other hand, gently cuts off the blades with a rotating cylinder, as with scissors. Incidentally, the home of the reindeer mower is England, the motherland of perfect turf.