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Mowing your lawn each week during summer might seem as easy as pushing your mower without much thought. But when it comes to grass cutting, height matters. Cutting too short can stress the grass and ...

Don’t rely on your mower setting to determine height. Worn wheels and other factors influence height. Mow a short stretch of grass and measure the cutting height with a ruler. Adele L. Wilcoxen ...

Sometimes on farm visits, I am asked a question about newly seeded orchardgrass not lasting but a year or two in hayfields and then dying out. I am always curious to find out at what height their ...

There’s nothing better than a neat and tidy garden lawn in the summer months. However, this can be difficult to achieve during long periods of drought. While it may be tempting to cut long, overgrown ...

How do you keep your lawn from frying in this summer’s record heat? Rethink how you mow. Although a low-cut, manicured lawn might seem ideal, turf grass actually does better in the summer heat when ...

When gardeners expect their lawn to be covered with a blanket of frost or snow for most of winter, it may seem sensible to cut the grass as short as possible to keep it looking neat and then leave it ...

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Summer is officially over, and temperatures have quickly dropped. Soon we'll see leaves on the ground, and green-fingered garden lovers up and down the country will be wondering just how to protect ...

If you only have a small patch of lawn or grow short, warm season grass, then a standard push-behind mower may not be the best tool for the job. Reel mowers can cut grass shorter and more precisely ...