My grass needs cutting

Depends on if the grass is dry or wet. We live in the east of England our weather is moderate, rarely snows last time was 12 years ago.
It's been very cold but sunny over the last few weeks.
Hubby cut our lawn about a month ago, it was so long and as it was dry and really needed a cut so he cut it.
I have added it slowly to my compost bin and the worms are very happy in a temperature of 20 degrees with plenty of food, so all good.

Charleygirl5

shysal any chance of the deer enjoying London grass? I have a lot of it so it could chomp away.

I later discovered that the deer had also eaten my poppy seedlings which surprisingly had survived the frosts.

shysal any chance of the deer enjoying London grass? I have a lot of it so it could chomp away.

So i didn't get to cut it Sunday, unexpected visitors, yesterday we had a frost and also today so ill wait till a frost free sunny day. I've used MoBactor it works well.

I've used MoBacter too, but you have to set the mower to cut very close first. On a dry day in April/May. A lot of the moss will be removed by mower. The MoBacter helps, but moss does come back!

Thank you shysal.
After reading up about Mo Bactor I'll definitely try it

LadyGracie

Our lawn is more moss than grass, any advice?

No chance of mowing ours, the drizzle is back here in South Wales

I spread Mo Bacter on my lawn by hand in spring and autumn. It digests moss without the need for scarifying so no work involved, not cheap but worth every penny. It is a lush green and almost moss free compared to my neighbours each side. No wonder the deer prefer to eat mine!
Mo Bacter

This is my grass a couple of years ago in late spring. The really bad moss is towards the trees.

(It makes the garden look much classier than it really is )

LadyGracie

Our lawn is more moss than grass, any advice?

No chance of mowing ours, the drizzle is back here in South Wales

I think the purist's advice would be aerate it thoroughly and brush in sharp sand to improve the drainage. And rake out the moss.

We have lots of moss over the winter in areas of our grass (gardening on clay). It's nice and green and soft all winter. It tends to practically disappear in the summer and the grass takes over. I'm too lazy to do the correct things to it, so I just live with it.

Mind you, I'm not sure that my grass patch could really be called a 'lawn'

A deer very kindly spent hours yesterday cropping my slightly long lush grass!

I take my robot mower in for the winter. It can't function with snow on the ground! Otherwise it's excellent and saves me lugging a conventional mower up the steps to our lawn.

Our lawn is more moss than grass, any advice?

No chance of mowing ours, the drizzle is back here in South Wales

Dh mowed ours yesterday

Thanks all, it’s dry and not soggy so I reckon I’ll give it a go tomorrow. I notice the council are still cutting the parks grass.

Certainly wouldn’t attempt it until the ground is no longer soft and wet.

We had a talk at garden club two weeks ago! Cut it with the blades higher than usual. He recommended cutting all year to keep the grass at a constant height, just a little longer in Winter.
Grass grows at anything above 5C.
Mine needs cutting badly.

I did mine on Thursday on the usual setting. It survived!

Blades as high as you can - if it hasn't rained you should be fine.

Keep an eye on the weather forecast - if you are where there may be snow next week it might be worth leaving it until after that has come and gone.

Grass cutting seems to be a year-round job now. We used to be able to put the mower away at the end of October and get it out sometime in March.