Lawn Mower Tips

Two tips for your lawn mower especially related to our disastrous drought.

  • Raise the blade on your lawn mower. Closely cropped grass requires more water.
  • Recycle your grass clippings back into your lawn by using a mulching mower. Your lawn will require less water (and you will also save time while mowing).

2 comments to Lawn Mower Tips

  • Reactionary

    Danny, thanks for the lawn tips.

    Mulching mowers save money, too. The clippings provide nutrients to the soil; don’t waste good clippings ($) that you’ve already watered and fertilized. I always try to blow my clippings back into my yard for the same reason (plus I can’t stand people who blow their clippings down the street).

    Also, the more grass you have, the fewer weeds you have. Sounds self-evident, but if your grass is thick and healthy, weeds have a harder time getting established.

    The Alabama Extension website has good info:

    http://www.aces.edu/

    Alabama Master Gardeners Association links:

    http://209.133.251.124/related_sites.asp

  • Roy

    I really would have expected Loretta to join in with all this talk about grass.

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