How Low To Cut The Grass

[Nwatson99]

3.25" inches is what I mow all this property at.

 

[LazerZLandscaping]

3 in for most of my clients.

I have a few golf courses I take care of, that is between 2 in and 1.5 in.

 

[stevendrew12]

If it looks shaggy, you should have mowed yesterday. don't remove more than 1/3 of the blade for the first couple of mowings. decent turf grass does just fine when mowed properly. Just my two cents.

 

[Shughes717]

3.25" inches is what I mow all this property at.

That is what I mow my lawn at now as well. My wife likes the stripes and my kids like the way the grass feels to their bare feet. I have one neighbor beside me who mows his grass at 2 inches. It looks yellow when he mows. The members of the church across from me mow the church lot at 2.5. It looks ok, but it would look much better if they mowed it higher. There is a long 4 acre stretch the church uses for recreation that would look great striped.

 

[Blaine B.]

My dad and his dad were always very anal about walking on grass. Yet they walk on it when they mowed it. Very odd.

At least they weren't the screaming type. When I was young I encountered some people like that who would storm out of their homes if they caught you on their lawn. Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Shughes717]

My dad and his dad were always very anal about walking on grass. Yet they walk on it when they mowed it. Very odd.

At least they weren't the screaming type. When I was young I encountered some people like that who would storm out of their homes if they caught you on their lawn. Absolutely ridiculous.

Man, I would have stayed in trouble when I was a kid if my dad got upset when we got in the grass. When we got a heavy rain my brothers and I would play in it. We used the lawn like a slip and slide lol. Dug holes and used the water hose to fill them to make mud pies too. Did get in trouble for that though.

 

[Blaine B.]

It's grass, it's rugged. It's not a piece of fine china! Why would it be a crime to step on it?

 

[Shughes717]

It's grass, it's rugged. It's not a piece of fine china! Why would it be a crime to step on it?

I agree, though my brothers and I were pretty rough on the lawn. It would leave a long strip of bare mud where we would slide during rains. We also rode three wheelers and 4 wheelers all over the property as well. The grass would always grow back, but there are several rough places in the yard that I'm sure we caused as kids. Lol

 

[bt3]

Yep. For example in the summer I was cutting the grass fairly high, but there are some people that want it cut short, and when I did, it looked bad and scalped. But this fall I cut the grass fairly low and then a week or so ago I cut it for the last time, low again. It didn't look low at all, because I only cut maybe an inch off. It looked good...not like this (this is not my work).

You must have been driving through my neighborhood. :smile:

To be fair, most of the homeowners near me hire lawn service. A few of us like to mow ourselves. My next door neighbors on both sides scalp to the max factor, usually in the height of summer. It's almost like a competition to see who can mow the most in a 1 week period and how low you can mow without hitting paydirt. :laughing: One neighbor sometimes lets his lawn go for weeks until it is about 6 inches high, then he scalps it down to the root over and over and over again with a large Toro Lawn Tractor with vacuum attachment two or three times a week, then he lets it go again for two or three weeks with no mowing, then scalps the daylights out of it a few times a week. And he wonders why he's full of Crabgrass? The other neighbor just scalps it once a week whether it needs it or not.

 

[Zeroturner]

I've never measured, but for the most part I set the deck only 1 notch down from the highest setting possible in the summer months.

I'd rather set it lower, but I don't water my grass (not with 1 1/2 acres to water) and the Texas summer heat with little rain means if I were to cut the lawn shorter would deprive it of much needed moisture.