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Lawn mowing
Keeping your garden and lawn in great condition
is influenced on how frequently you mow it. This in itself
will be determined by a range of factors from the weather,
the season, and the type of garden you are creating. Not everyone
aspires to a lawn looking like a billiard table
Therefore, before
pushing your lawn mower out of the garage, have a wander
around the garden. Firstly the lawn should be dry, and therefore
the weather should be dry. In any case, garden work in the
rain is a miserable experience. Give the dew time to dry
away before you start. If your up early and ready to start,
you could always start to use this time to clear and garden
debris from your lawn. Stones and mole hills will not do
your lawn mower any good at all, particularly if you are
about to it the once over with a cylinder lawn mower.
Cutting around the
edge of the lawn a couple of times will allow you to turn
the lawn mower more easily. Then cut in parallel lines.
If you are using a cylinder lawn mower, this will give you
the stripes. If your using a rotary or hover, it will help
you avoid missing bits.
Some older, larger
lawn mowers have flaps at the side of the blade rather than
gathering the cuttings. More strategic lawn mowing is required
here in order to keep the cuttings in several ridges up
and down the lawn for raking up. Splitting the lawn into
two halves for example, and mowing in an oblong shape will
allow you to finish with two ridges of grass cuttings. If
this seems too tricky, you could of course upgrade to a
newer lawn mower with grass collector.
If your garden is
actually circular, or you have a circular lawn in an irregular
shaped garden, you could always cut in one continuous spiral.
However, before you embark on this you should be aware that
it can be extremely difficult to keep the perfect circle.
High quality lawns
can be cut quite closely. To retain the perfect pile you
should bring the lawn mower out perhaps twice a week in
the summer. In the height of summer you could cut to a height
of as little as 6mm. However, during spring and late summer,
you should cut the lawn higher, perhaps not much below 20mm.
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