How Tall to Cut the Grass - Bermuda, Zoysia, Centipede, St Augustine, and Cool Season Lawns
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- How tall should you cut the grass in your lawn? I give mowing height recommendations for bermuda, zoysia, centipede, St Augusinte, and even cool season grasses. There are a few things to consider when deciding on a mowing height. One, is the time of year which can affect how fast the grass in growing. Another is how much water the lawn gets. Third, you want to consider how often you are willing to mow the grass. The rule of thumb is to not mow more than 1/3 on the grass blade.
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I have cool season, and a vast majority of people are not mowing at 4". I keep mine at 4" and think it looks great at that height. Stays greener, requires less water, and you don't need to mow as frequently. Almost everyone on my street and neighborhood are mowing short. Don't understand why, as their lawns are all turning brown right now, while mine is green.
I have 34 centipede lawns, I cut everyone at 2.50 inches. Most of them I don't have to even treat for weeds. Over the past twenty years I have learned this is the perfect height here in southern NC. Thanks for your advice
Thanks for your input
Do you mow them weekly or Bi-weekly?
@@godsees-5871 about 75 percent are biweekly. If it rains normally instead of the past several years of drought, most would be cut weekly.
I’m pretty sure your upload schedule has been reading my mind for the past couple weeks. Every time I have a question about my lawn you upload the answer
Same
Hi Jason. Bermuda lawn and centipede roadside just like you. I’m just north of Columbus, GA. Love your videos. I’ve been trying to get my Bermuda a little lower. I was cutting it at 2.25”, but I just took it down to 2”. Left it a little scalped in a few spots, but hoping it’ll recover in a week or so. If my lawn was a little more level, I would try 1.75”. Lawn leveling is a little more work and expense than I’m willing to take on. After all, it’s only a lawn, not the back nine at Augusta. Thanks again and keep the lawn videos coming.
Sand is not expensive ! Just start in one area , and so on to the next ! Little steps ?
Zoysia imo is the nicest looking grass and walking on it makes me start singing the zippidy dooda song and all the birds on my property start chiming in.
Magical stuff!
I’ll agree, Charlotte, NC
Tall fescue front and zoysia back yard. I have it dialed in this year. 20 pieces of sod placed over the last 2 weeks to finish/expand lawn.
@@Checkthefineprint I'm envious, currently have Riviera Bermuda do to cost. 2 acres is a lot of sod. Maybe one day.
That would be A LOT of sod!
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! I love ZOYSIA LAWNS...ALL VARIETIES!!!! 💯💯💯
I live in Charleston south carolina. I'm a beginner at this and I like taller grass so I planted tall fescue. I can see it coming in but I wanted to know what other grass is for warm season that looks good tall?
How do we know the distance between st.aug and centipede. And can st.aug grow wild or does it need to be planted.
On my 3 acres of centipede/carpet grass mix I do the back yard at 2.5 inches and the front at 3 inches. Due to the unevenness of my front yard I'm fixin to work it back up to 3.5 inches. Usually cut about once every 10 days or so, depending on the rain and my work schedule.
Love the videos. Keep rockin
Bermudagrass needs to be scalped in the spring down to at least a half inch or quarter inch would be best to remove the brown stalks and change the branching height of the crown of the plant. It then needs to be mowed at least twice a week between a half inch and three quarters of an inch for it to look it's best. Not many people are willing to do that, nor do they have a reel mower to even be able to do that, but that's how Bermudagrass is supposed to be maintained.
right now i'm cutting it at 3.25in with just my toro super recycler. since it's summer already, is it too late to gradually start to bring the height down?
@@bloxxieOG nope it's not too late. Honestly if it were me, I would put it on the lowest setting and scalp it down as low as possible to get rid of all that brown stalky junk and then raise it up one notch and keep it at that. It's a lot of work and It's gonna look crappy for a while but it'll look 100 times better once it recovers from the scalp cause it'll just be nice green grass. I would also definetly put some fertilizer out after scalping to help with recovery.
@@stevenbanks4411 awesome thanks man!
I have to cut my Bermuda every 3 to 5 days. I use T Nex PGR to stretch that mowing to every 5 days. I cut it at .75 inches with a reel mower. Very happy with the results.
@@johnfetter3252 That's where bermuda is happiest. I'm doing all of those same exact things except I'm at a half inch right now.
I never saw Bermuda cut on a rotary mower until I moved to The South. When I lived in The Pacific Northwest I used a late 50s Toro Sportlawn on all my Bermuda.
I'm from the Pacific Northwest (western Oregon) and never saw Bermuda there or in Washington.
@@hendrixba
I grew a bunch on upper Queen Anne, Beacon Hill, and Cap Hill...
Used growth regs on it too.
Nice. I've been to Queen Anne Hill before. Many years ago. My grandfather lives Kirkland, WA. I live Newburgh, Indiana now and have a Meyer Zoysia lawn. The stuff is wonderful walking on barefoot.
@@hendrixba I grow a bunch of Zoysia in The Panhandle- closest thing to rye grass!
I live in Alabama idk what kinda grass I have but it grows like crazy. I cut at 2.5 and think I need to go less but I push mow and have bumps and hills
Start as low as you can next year then move up a half inch and then keep it there
My Centipede has been a lot of work. I have weeds varying from Lespedeza to clovers. I am currently cutting it at about 2 inches so it has been less Lespedeza. When I cut it down to 1 inches I have a ton of Lespedeza. I have been post emergent but no pre emergent. I plan on putting down pre emergent this year. I am cutting once a week and want to try twice but these storms have been making it tough.
I was mowing my Bermuda lawn every Wednesday but with the amount of rain AL has been receiving the last 2 weeks it is waaay too wet to mow. I'm in Tuscaloosa, AL and have standing water in my front & back yards.
After my lawn dries out, what is your recommendation for the length of the first mow? Then set the mower down to the lowest setting again to be a " normal" length? Cut high, then low a few days later if we don't receive any more rain? Would this work and not hurt the lawn.
I'm not even worrying about fertilizer on the lawn yet for June. I'm afraid it will all wash away into the backyard neighbor's yard and the front street curb and be a waste of time, money and effort.
What's your thoughts? Curious to know the same.
😟 cutting as low as possible to just try to keep up right now.
I got customers who only want every 2 week cuts, one wants weekly...etc
still loving it though
Cut all ur bi weeklys off, take weeklys only, trust me you'll thank me later lol
Hi Jason..what the best Herbicide to get rid of grassy weed in Bermuda?
Combination cocktail- Certainty and Celsius WG- follow the label on both for mixing+surfactants.
@@bermudadude8008 ok thanks man
Here in south Florida it’s all st agusustine 41/2or 5 inch every week
St Augustine looks so good cut high
I do my St. Augustin at 5”, twice a week during summer (lots of rain), once a week when it gets “cool” (by South Florida standard).
What is the name of the growth prevention for grass
St Augustine in northern alabama; how cold do your winters get?
St Augustine big doggy is a real hearty grass can work in zone 6
I just measured to be accurate and my Zenith Zoysia I planted from seed is about 3 inches with a few blades pushing towards 4 inches, but I've been busy with family and I normally would have mown a few days ago to about 2.5 inches I also just spot treated some crabgrass and sedge and broadleaf weeds so I allowed the grass to grow and not be cut a little longer so the herbicide would have ample time to absorb and do its work.. So normally I mow once a week and I cut off less than 1/3 of the blade length. My Zenith Zoysia is in its second full growing season and it is already extremely thick and dense and like carpet to walk on in most places. I wish it was easy to post photos...I'm not knocking your Zoysia, but my Zenith Zoysia looks a lot more dense than yours which I'm assuming is the type of Zoysia. Zenith is a Zoysia Japonica cultivar/hybrid and it has even pushed out into the gravel area next to the road, even where the ground is extremely compact where the mail carrier drives over it every day. There are some scars that are healing where I sprayed some glyphosate while I 'thought' the Zoysia was dormant, the soil was warmer than I allowed for and I killed several small spots, but they are filling back in, and where the larger spots are I'm transplanting plugs, which I need to do more of. I'm happy to say as far as lawns go, our street has the best lawns in the neighborhood. We're in the transition zone and I have Zoysia which is looking good and thick. My neighbor to my left is a local Parks & Rec employee and he has a nice fescue lawn that he stripes, although he seems to think watering his lawn would cost a lot of money and it doesn't, so at this time of year the heat really stresses his fescue. I have a set of neighbors in their last 70's/early 80's and they have a fairly nice lawn, and the guy two doors down pays a lawn service to do everything for him besides mow, and my neighbor between...he wants a nice lawn, but doesn't do anything to promote a desirable turf, so when I renovate my back lawn, I'll put Zoysia seed along the fence and he'd be thrilled if it spread into his lawn, and I'll transplant plugs on the other side of my driveway and allow them to root and start to spread across his front lawn. And my newest neighbors put a fair amount of work into their lawn and landscaping, but have failed to put down desirable seed so they have a very healthy mix of weeds and multiple desirable grasses. I'm going to have to sit him on the right path of education so he can figure out what he wants. Good video by the way! I subscribed...sorry, I thought I had already subscribed in the past.
Damn nigga typed up a whole essay
How do you prevent the seedheads on Bermuda ?
Growth regulator and frequent mowing
Does anyone know how Emerald Zoysia will tolerate a reel mower cutting at 3/4 inch?
Yes ofcourse you can ! Trick is to water it well after cutting !
So cut your grass early in the morning after the grass is dry to the touch
Looks like someone had low tire so the deck was uneven
Next time a customer bitches, ima show them this video lol