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Professional Lawn Care Services
For A Greener.....More Beautiful Lawn Since 2001!

For Over 10 years Grasshopper Lawns has been Providing quality lawn care in  Southeast Louisiana & the Mississppi Gulf  Coast.

Lawn Mowing By Grasshopper Lawns

Lawn mowing and how you cut grass can make a big difference in your lawn’s quality
Lawn mowing sounds like a simple enough thing.  . How you mow, when you mow and even what you do with the clippings can make a big difference in how your lawn performs. In fact, mowing the lawn is probably the most underrated and overlooked part of good lawn care.It starts with grass height
The biggest mowing miscue the typical person  makes is cutting grass too short. Some people downright scalp the lawn, using the putting-green look as the ideal model. That’s a bad idea culturally for several reasons:

It increases moisture and nutrition demands as the grass tries to fight back from near total decapitation.
It reduces the amount of chlorophyll available to manufacture energy to fuel the grass roots. (Longer blades mean more chlorophyll per grass plant and consequently more vigorous grass.)
It allows the soil to dry out faster, which increases the ill effects of drought.
And, weeds germinate better and get off to a faster start when taller grass blades aren’t shading them out.

What really makes a  lawn look good is the evenness of the cut — not its height. Most people are just as happy with a 3-inch-tall evenly cut lawn as a 1-inch-tall evenly cut lawn.

A bad cut can dehydrate your lawn and promote weed growth

The theory that cutting short lengthens the time between cuts also doesn’t hold up. Grass actually grows faster after it’s been cut short as it tries to rebuild itself to its genetic norm.

A good in-season height for most turfgrasses is 2½ to 3 inches — Here at Grasshopper Lawns we will not cut your grass below 2.5 inches to insure a healty The exception is toward the end of the season when it makes sense to cut a little shorter so the grass blades will dry faster over winter. That can help head off early-spring fungal problems such as snow mold.

Don’t wait too long between grass cuts

A good rule of thumb is to mow the lawn often enough so you’re never removing more than one-third of the blade length at a time. Grasshopper Lawns Suggest weekly mowinf to insure a healthy lawn

Mowing is actually pruning. And that’s a form of injury to the grass plants. Severe cutbacks are much more stressful on grass than lighter cuts and require more energy to heal.

When grass is growing fastest in mid-spring, this may mean mowing twice a week or every four or five days. It’s much better to cut that often than to wait a few more days  and end up having to whack 3 inches off of a 6-inch stand. That’s not only a shock to the grass but creates an unusually large mass of clippings.

And what about the grass clippings?

Clippings can provide one-third of your lawn’s Nitrogen needs

If you’re mowing regularly, clippings won’t be a problem. They’ll be short enough to disappear into the lawn. It’s actually best to let the clippings drop into the lawn as opposed to bagging them. Why?

They return precious nutrients to the lawn soil as they break down. Researchers State  estimate that letting the clippings decay in place supply about one-third of the lawn’s total nitrogen needs for the season.
The decaying clippings add organic matter to the soil.
Clippings are not a significant cause of thatch in the lawn, as is often believed. Thatch is that layer of dead roots, crowns and other decomposing matter that can impede rainfall and oxygen exchange when it’s too thick (i.e. more than an inch). In a healthy lawn, microbes quickly break down small grass clippings.
Returning the clippings to the ground is recycling at its best and keeps organic “waste” out of the trash stream.

At Grasshopper Lawns  our Mulching Mowers do an excellent job of chopping the clippings into small pieces. Even ordinary side-discharge mowers disperse clippings well enough to let them lie when you mow at frequent enough intervals. Again we suggest weekly Lawn mowing for a beautiful healthy lawns.

At Grasshoppers we try to avoid cutting the grass when it’s too wet. The clippings are more likely to mat together then, you won’t get an even cut (the mower wheels will flatten grass blades), and you may even compact the soil if it’s wet. Causing Ruts

Our Lawn Mower Blades are sharpened on a daily basis to insure a quality cut.

Mowing patterns
Many people unknowingly take the  exact same route every time when because it makes sense to them for one reason or another (convenience, habit, avoiding the nosy neighbor, etc.) There’s no horticultural problem with that, but altering the route can make a cosmetic difference.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color of the grass appears different depending on which way you passed over it with the mower. That’s because the force of the spinning mower blades blows the grass blades as it cuts them. Light reflecting off the grass will make it look lighter or darker, depending on which way the blades are laying.

It’s this pattern of mowing that accounts for the designs commonly seen in athletic fields. Some really avid home-lawn fans do the same thing themselves, and there are even special mower blades designed for creating patterns.

At Grasshopper Lawns we alteenate the mowing routes we take when cutting you lawn ie: diagnolly, horizontal and vertically the  route can make a slight difference in the evenness of the cut by making sure no particular areas keep getting pushed down while others are always cut off. No More Ruts!

Lawn mowing might not be rocket science, but it isn’t exactly foolproof either.  At Grasshopper Lawns We  Mow high . & Let those clips lie. To ensure the healthiest lawn.

Call Grasshopper Lawns Today for your free Estimate.

Greener More Beautiful Lawn Always  at Grasshopper Lawns

Grasshopper Lawns offers a wide variety of services designed to enhance the beauty of your property.
Grasshoppers handles both residential and commercial accounts.

• Lawn Mowing
• Weed Eating
• Blowing,
• Weed Trimming
• Edging

LANDSCAPING

• Mulch installation
• Hedge Trimming
• Sod Installation
• Flower Bed Clean Out
• Tree Pruning
• Rock installation

TREE REMOVAL

Grasshoppers will remove any small tree. We also cut up and haul away large trees that are already down on the ground. Call today for a free estimate.

TOTAL LAWN CLEAN UP

Has your property been destroyed by storms or neglect? Grasshoppers can make your lawn look great! Services vary depending on customer need. Call a Lawn Care Specialist at Grasshoppers to get more information about Total Lawn Clean Up services.

GUTTER CLEANING

Grasshopper Lawns offers professional gutter cleaning services. Please call for a free estimate.

PRESSURE WASHING

Grasshopper Lawns offers Residential & Commercial Pressure Washing through our sister company .

Grasshoppers Pressure Washing

Service Area
Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Abita Springs, Lacombe, Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish,
Lousiana. Diamonhead, Gulfport, Biloxi Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Hancock County,
Harrison County.

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