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pied piper wrote:


Soil temperature 4 degrees and above is the average for most species.
I have found with the warmer winters we are cutting grass virtually all year
round.
There was a time when come October I would send all my machinery for
overhaul and not get it back til March.
Now its a case of sending machinery in for about one week in January.

On the other hand, the AMOUNT it grows between the end of October and
the beginning of March is pretty small. I don't know exactly how
important the factors of low light level and low temperature are,
but am certain that the former is the main constraint in warm winters.
And, of course, it will clearly depend on species.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.