Better Homes & Gardens
Smart mowing in the fall leads to a healthy lawn in spring. Send too tall turf into winter, and voles, moles, and other rodents may take up residence in the thick, inviting grassy coverage. Cut your lawn too short at the end of the growing season, and winter damage is more likely. Both timely mowing and mowing height are important factors in fall lawn care. Whether your lawn goes dormant in winter or merely slows its growth, these late-fall mowing strategies will lead to a welcoming green lawn in spring. More
I let the illegal immigrants I pay under the table handle all of that stuff.
Illegal invaders have to have some under the table work or they’ll start breaking into homes.
The author made the mistake of assuming the lawn is grass and not weeds.
I’m thinking of letting my lawn grow out and harvest it as hay. Local farmers get three cuttings per season!
Jethro
This years been a killer year for weeds in lawns in NorCal. Every ones complaining about it. We’re starting the fall crab grass routine next week end.
I grew up where people were very proud of their lawn.
Hey Moe!
Knyuck knyuck knyuck…
My “lawn” is 1-1/4 minus here in Phoenix.
@Brad
The crab grass, stiltgrass, nimblewill, oxalis, spurge and chickweed went nuts in my lawn this year.
The crabgrass preventer didn’t work this spring and the spray weed killer didn’t do a thing on any weeds.
I think they sold a bunch of worthless weed preventers this year to kiss up to the enviromentalweenies.
Same here in N. AZ, Ferd
You know who really cares about lawns? Kamala cares about lawns.
She believes in the people in the middle class putting their “roots” down and taking pride in their well-kept lawns. I mean, where do you think she harvest the best parts of her word salads, from middle class lawns of course. Certainly not coconut trees. Why you’d have to have fallen out of coconut tree on your head to believe that.
Not what she’s proposed any policy to enhance the lawns of all Americans. But I imagine if there is a group that can be pandered to without giving away any specifics, her team will come up with something to bring joy before election day.
Jethro: Yup. Roundup has been neutered to the point of uselessness.
“The crabgrass preventer didn’t work this spring and the spray weed killer didn’t do a thing on any weeds.”
Same here. I keep telling the wife I think the Crabgrass preventer actually helped it grow. WTF? On top of that we picked up a red clover that laughs at everything you spray on it.
Some of my neighbors are having local farmers harvest their tall grass for hay. They get their acreage mowed and the farmer gets hay for his cattle.
Lawn care is much simpler once you learn to appreciate the beauty of sedge.
Round Up has a new formula. It’s useless. If you’re trying to spot kill some weeds try pouring boiling hot water on them. That kills everything.
@Brad
But my entire lawn would be dead…
Pave it and paint it green.
Another good word of advice is to let your mower run out of gas (even when you do there will still be a fair amount of fuel in the carburetor float bowl) and go purchase a 1 qt (more if you have more than one mower/etc.)of ethenol
free canned fuel and put that in your tank and run for 10 minutes.
It should start right up next season. You should be able to find the fuel in any auto part store or most big box retailers. It’s pricey but I repair/replace carburetors daily on small engine equipment and 7 or 8 bucks is a lot cheaper than me. Trust me, it works.
Lots of people tell us they use rec fuel but when we test it we usually find ethenol in it on the machines we work on. Not always though so take that advice as you wish.
^^^^^run out of gas when ready to put up for season. Probably a important point I left out.