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Tips On How to Best Cut Your Grass Before Winter To Be Ready For Next Spring… | A&A Lawn Care & Landscaping? ›

Cut your lawn to possibly the shortest height you have all season. The ideal height is around 2 1/2 inches. Cut it too low and the grass might not be long enough to photosynthesize and provide nutrients to the roots. Too high and the frost might become matted after a snowfall.

Best practice teaches us that you should progressively lower your grass height, instead of giving it one big chop. Cutting your grass short before winter helps to prevent diseases, attract less debris, and lower the potential of having snow mold in the North.

Aerate & Fertilize

Before the first snow hits, aerate your lawn. This will allow the roots to get some much-needed nutrients and oxygen before winter. After you have aerated, make sure to spread a winter fertilizer around the yard.

Most of the time, mulching your clippings is the best option. You should bag your clippings if the grass is tall, leaves are covering the lawn, or you need to prevent disease and weeds from spreading.

To protect your grass, mow your lawn in warmer conditions. It's best to wait until temperatures remain steady above 40 degrees for about 7 days or more. For further assistance or questions, please contact us on social media or through our contact form!

Many lawn care experts recommend that if you choose to fertilize your cool-season lawn only once each year that you should do so in fall. The lawn fertilizer typically available in fall is called winterizer fertilizer. In most locations, you should aim to apply winterizer fertilizer in October or November.

Made of limestone or chalk, lime's main component is calcium carbonate. It adds calcium and magnesium to the soil. The nutrients are important to preserve a lawn's color and lushness, and they mitigate damage caused by drought, heat, or high traffic.

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Late summer or early fall is the best time to overseed lawns. Soil and atmospheric temperatures are most favorable for optimum seed germination and growth. With adequate moisture, fertilizer and sunlight, the new seedlings will be well established before cooler fall weather sets in.

Grass clippings contain nutrients and can help enrich the soil of bare spots to prepare for new grass to grow. It also aids in moisture retention.

The ideal grass height for winter is between 2 inches and 2.5 inches. This keeps grass short enough to resist disease spread, but not so short that it becomes overly stressed by cold temperatures.

Grass clippings contain moisture, valuable nutrients, and decompose quickly. Grasscycling saves time and money and helps the environment. Mowing time is reduced since bagging and disposal of clippings is eliminated. Grass clippings add valuable nutrients and organic matter to the soil and produce healthy, green lawns.

Thus, when grass isn't as healthy (for example, in periods of drought), it is better to let grass grow taller and, in doing so, to strengthen the root systems. However, cutting grass too low thins the grass roots and makes it easier for weeds to invade.

It actually helps your grass stay strong. When you forego mowing, and your grass grows to excessively high levels and goes to seed, you're doing more harm than good. Much of the grass seed that pops up on the tips of the blade may actually be sterile-so don't expect bare patches to miraculously fill in.

Can you cut grass before a frost? Keep an eye on the weather forecast, as you should not mow your lawn if frost is predicted within the next 1-2 days. This can stunt the growth of the grass and damage the blades, ultimately meaning that your lawn will not recover from its mowing.

However, most professional gardeners would agree that between 8 AM and 10 AM is the best time of day to cut your grass. The reason for that is that lawns need time to heal before evening. Grass needs the benefit of the day to dry and heal before dusk settles.