Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Just A Little Off The Top

Today we will continue along the same path that we did in our last couple of blogs: getting the landscape ready for winter. The unique thing about today's blog however, is that we are going to reverse fields on you. We're going to do an about face. We're flipping the script. We're doing a 180. You get the idea. Something we told you to do earlier in the year is now not a great idea. But I would like to assure you that we are not crazy people. No it's about the weather. Earlier in the year during the summer we hammered mowing your lawn at your highest mower setting. This helped with keeping the grass healthy. That is not best practice when it comes to fall though.

The thing we have to keep in mind when preparing your landscape for winter is this; limit liability. Deep root feedings help a tree over winter and come out in spring better. Sprinkler blowouts help you avoid a costly sprinkler repair in the spring. Spider sprays help with insects trying to find a warm place in your house for the winter. It's the same thing with mowing short for winter. This practice limits the surface area of the plant which does two things: 1) Allows greater air circulation before and after snow and 2) there is physically less plant to get matted down over the winter so it's harder for snow mold and other early spring fungi to take hold.

So.... scalp it! Take it all the way down. Set your mower at the lowest setting and bag the clippings. Our best guess is you probably won't have to mow more than once or twice more this year. Make sure before you put you mower away for the winter to do one short mowing. You'll thank us come spring.

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1 comment:

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