On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:47:02 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

Just to note that despite the hot, dry weather and the forecast
that
this may go on for a long time people are still cutting lawns to
almost
bare earth for some reason.

It's Sunday afternoon, you cut the grass on Sunday afternoon. Just
like you wash the car on Saturday morning. B-)

I thought you were supposed to raise the blades if you had to cut,
but
if possible not cut at all once dry weather set in.

The blades on our mower are as high as they will go, always. The
grass gets cut when it needs it and sometimes not then but it's PITA
having to rake if it's so long that you can't use the collection box.

Half my lawn gets cut one every two weeks. The other half just grows.

You could say that about here, though the cut frequency is rather
variable from 6 months (over winter, Oct to Apr) to just a few days
if it's warm and wet. The part that is left is doing well this year,
grass well over 5' high


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Cheers
Dave.