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Old 29-02-2016, 12:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default When can you go out and cut the grass?

In article , david@abacus-
nurseries.co.uk says...

On 26/02/2016 18:50, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
I'd go and do it tomorrow, if it was a sensible thing to do. Apart from
the fact that my neighbours would think I'd gone mad. But when's the
earliest you can do it without harming the grass. I don't want the
first cut to be left until i's very too long, as I use a hand push
mower, and if it's too long, I end up with quite a few stalks sticking
up that just refuse to be cut.



Well I wont do it till the mower wont sink up to its axles in the ground
and there will be no frost for a couple of days after cutting.


I tend to agree about the soft ground, but sitting here looking
at the sheep grazing the fields, the grass seems to survive
their cutting quite well, apart from the muddy tracks where the
farmer lays out a layer of pellets for them each day!

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales