It is time to mow your new lawn. Hopefully you can do it when the ground
is fairy dry so that you do not compact the soil, unduly. Raise the
mower blade so that the first cut takes off about an inch of the growth.
Then reduce the blade progressively for the subsequent cuts.

The barish patches will not suffer from your activities, but try not to
tread on those areas until they have caught up with the rest of the
lawn.

PS: If it is a small lawn the first cut could beneficially be with a
garden shears.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.





"Cat" wrote in message
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We have sown a new lawn in the garden of our recently acquired house
approximately 8 weeks ago. Despite a dry spell for the first week or
two,
it has greened beautifully, and the sward is now nice and lush mostly
everywhere, about 10 to 12 cm in height. There are a few slightly
bare
patches, in which we have been advised to sow some extra seed - this
was
done yesterday, after extensive weed pulling.
It seems to me that the lawn now needs its first mowing. I have also
heard
that mowing the lawn helps it establish, and chokes up weeds.
Can anyone tell us whether it is indeed time to mow it, and are there
any
tips for the first time mow(s) ? Will mowing do anything undesirable
to the
newly seeded bareish patches?
Thanks in advance for any help!

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