When do you give the grass the last cut?

Legacy_user

I went out yesterday and cut my grass, the grass was still wet and I ended up with a bit of a mess but I hope that'll be the last cut, The grass it still growing but I think lack of decent weather is going to prevet cutting

virtual_relic

Once upon a time it was possible to put the mower away in October and forget it until April, now it's possible to still be cutting grass in December. You should always try to leave it at about 2" over winter and try to collect the last grass clippings to prevent mould/fungus etc. But if you leave grass to get to long over winter it will be yellow and rough looking when it has it's first cut next year. So in general you keep cutting until you don't have to anymore!

olly300

Unfortunately in the autumn you have to cut the grass in the afternoon. At the moment any time after 2pm is normally fine. Later on you have to do it about an hour before it gets dark.

I have bulbs in my grass and this year when I came to cut the grass for the first time I had to strim it first. The late Spring meant the bulbs delayed flowering and dying.

SailorSam

After the last cut you should, if you can manage it, scarify the lawn to clear all the dead grass over the winter

Kay_Peel

I will cut the grass twice before Christmas - the end of September and the beginning of November, if and when there is a dry spell.

savemoney

Dont cut the grass when its wet nor too short. Also dont feed lawns now

As said probably best cutting on a afternoon like today its nice and sunny for a change

I also put a fork in my lawn to aerate it, Simply dig the fork into the lawn every 30cm (1 foot) or so to open up the soil and improve drainage.

I also applied some lawn sand to help drainage as my lawn is sloped and the soil is clay so gets wet very quickly as it is now quite a lot of worm casts

Primrose

years ago we could reckon to stop mowing around the end of October but milder winters have sometimes meant that we've been mowing almost all year round. In autumn/winter, it's difficult to find a good mowing time if the grass gets too long because heavy dew remains on it for much of the day but a sunny or windy day often crops up, which makes it a good mowing day. I don't like to let the grass grow too long because that seems to encourage heavy moss growth. I've been mowing our lawns on New Year's Day before now but never mow when frost is expected.

katholicos

Thankful am I that I no longer have to cut the grass...since i turned the garden over to accomodating raised beds for my veg growing. I do have quite poor health and mowing the jungle used to near finish me off...ten years of that and now i don't have to do it,,,what a relief!

I do recall that i used to manage to get my last mow of the year in at the end of October/beginning of November, but alway aimed for a dry day when the grass wasn't too soggy. Of course, the longer the grass is, the more wet the bottom of the grass nearest the ground, will be....my old mower was forever clogging up with wet grass clippings when i had mowed the deceptively dry looking grass.

Primrose

I'm now using what I think will be the clippings from the last mowing of the year to put an insulating layer on all my large patio containers. I empty them of their summer contents (bush tomatoes or bedding plants), chop these up and dig them back in to rot down over winter to improve the soil and add some humous for next year. Then I cover with a thick layer of grass clippings to keep in what residual heat there is to help the rotting down process.