JasperFrank
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- Nov 23, 2018
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- Ford 1220
Every year is different in the PNW. First mow, usually in mid-April. This can get delayed till mid-May if we have off and on rain, with bright sunny days in between. The grass has to get first cut by the end of May, even if its still wet, otherwise it gets too tall for even the bush hog to deal with- it just gets knocked over otherwise and not cut. I'll do another fine cut with the lawn tractor, sometime in late June.
The past few years, I'll try to get a cut in by June, when The Great Spigot In The Sky shuts off for good, till the end of September, all the grass is drying out by then. And we can't mow anyway due to fire restrictions, which last year, happened way too early.
If its a mild winter, with no snow, I try to get ahead of it in February.
Very different types of ground cover, establish and dominate every year. Some years its tall grasses that take over, and some years its low stuff like clover and some other low growing, thick, non-grass plant I haven't identified yet, that grows sideways, almost vine like, and is very difficult to cut: Some years, it is all butter cups. This year, after importing an entire new cover soil, to groom the lawns; its all clover.
Attempting to control this, with expensive mono-seeding, of the allowed types of grass, has never worked, and looking back at all the grass seed I've bought and spread, it was a waste of money and time. The lawns are going to do what ever they are going to do and every year, it is different.
The past few years, I'll try to get a cut in by June, when The Great Spigot In The Sky shuts off for good, till the end of September, all the grass is drying out by then. And we can't mow anyway due to fire restrictions, which last year, happened way too early.
If its a mild winter, with no snow, I try to get ahead of it in February.
Very different types of ground cover, establish and dominate every year. Some years its tall grasses that take over, and some years its low stuff like clover and some other low growing, thick, non-grass plant I haven't identified yet, that grows sideways, almost vine like, and is very difficult to cut: Some years, it is all butter cups. This year, after importing an entire new cover soil, to groom the lawns; its all clover.
Attempting to control this, with expensive mono-seeding, of the allowed types of grass, has never worked, and looking back at all the grass seed I've bought and spread, it was a waste of money and time. The lawns are going to do what ever they are going to do and every year, it is different.