{"id":6895,"date":"2014-10-31T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2014-10-28T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:36:25","slug":"the-last-mowing-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/10\/31\/the-last-mowing-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Mowing Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well\u00a0Manicured Lawn At Longwood Gardens’ Amphitheater\u00a0in Kennett Square, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

Within\u00a0many garden circles, conventional wisdom says that you should mow lawns very close heading into winter. Mowing height should be adjusted by seasonal and\u00a0current weather conditions.\u00a0Mowing height also sets the shoot to root ratio of\u00a0specific grass species. In cooler northern areas\u00a0bluegrass and tall fescue are the lawn grasses of choice. In the mid-South (called the “transition zone”) tall fescues and warm season bermudagrass and zoysia are favored.<\/p>\n

Cutting height changes with the season.\u00a0During a hot dry summer mowing height should be\u00a0raised an additional 1\/2\u00a0 to 1 inch from the spring cut. Just an increase\u00a0 of 1\/8 inch inputs more light to individual grass plants and\u00a0deeper rooting depth. The result: your lawn becomes more drought tolerant.<\/p>\n

Turf scientists at the University of Tennessee recommend raising the cutting height for the last three fall mowings. This increases cold tolerance within the grass crown. Winter weather can be brutal on your lawn. Dr. Tom Samples, Extension Turfgrass Specialist recommends starting a month ahead to gain insulation value. In most areas this means the last 3 mowings of the year.<\/p>\n

Recommended\u00a0fall cutting height by species:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bluegrass\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> 2 inches<\/p>\n

Tall fescue (wide blade\u00a0types like K-31)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 2 to 3 1\/2 inches<\/p>\n

Tall fescue (fine leaf cultivars)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 2 -3 inches<\/p>\n

Zoysia\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 1-2 inches<\/p>\n

Common bermudagrass\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> 1-2 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within\u00a0many garden circles, conventional wisdom says that you should mow lawns very close heading into winter. Mowing height should be adjusted by seasonal and\u00a0current weather conditions.\u00a0Mowing height also sets the shoot to root ratio of\u00a0specific grass species. In cooler northern areas\u00a0bluegrass and tall fescue are the lawn grasses of choice. In the mid-South (called the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1176,674,806,774,1088,853,676,698,630,1035,642,1175],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}