🌿 Landscaping
Mow Your Lawn the Right Way
⏱️30–60 min weekly💰$0🟢Beginner⭐4.7 (209 reviews)
Most homeowners mow too short and too infrequently. A few changes make your grass thicker and your weeds fewer.
Raise your mower deck
Cut to 3–3.5" for most cool-season grasses (fescue, Kentucky bluegrass). Warm-season grasses go shorter.
Follow the 1/3 rule
Never cut more than 1/3 of the blade length in a single mow. Long blades stress the plant.
Mow dry grass, not wet
Wet grass clumps, clogs the mower, and tears instead of cutting cleanly.
Mulch clippings back in
Clippings return nitrogen to the soil — free fertilizer. Only bag if the lawn is diseased or overgrown.
Alternate your pattern
Each mow, change direction (N-S, then E-W, then diagonals). Grass "remembers" direction and grows upright.
Sharpen the blade each season
A dull blade tears the grass and turns tips brown. Sharpen or replace every 20–25 hours of use.
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