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Jay Nygaard here with Great Outdoors Landscape to talk to you about weekly lawn maintenance. An important part of that maintenance is a clean well-kept lawn mower. A sharp blade will provide a nice clean cut and will provide the blades of grass with resistance against disease and fungus. You never want to cut your lawn more than 1/3 of the blade at a time. And if you have a bluegrass, rye or fescue lawn such as this one, you want to keep it at 2 ½ to 3 inch height, and in doing so will shade out any weed seeds that are at the base of the lawn and will also conserve water. The shorter you keep your grass, the water it will consume to stay green and healthy. If you’ve let your lawn go to a point where it needs to be cut and you’re going to take more than that, you want to do it over several days to minimize stress on the plant.
Options for mowing your lawn include bagging or mulching. Now bagging your clippings and removing them and disposing of them takes more work and is less beneficial to your lawn, whereas mulching can provide a natural fertilizer and much needed nitrogen to keep your lawn green and lush.
When mulching your lawn, the clippings will go back into the yard and settle in and decompose overtime. One of the things that you have to look for is that those clippings don’t build up to a point where they’re more than a half inch tick. This is called thatch. And when thatch becomes more than a half inch thick, it becomes a problem. It promotes fungus and disease. To mitigate that, you can bag your mowing clippings for several weeks until the existing thatch is composted to a level back to under half an inch.
Other things that you can do to eliminate thatch is aeration. An aeration is a topic we’ll cover in our next segment, seasonal maintenance.
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