Lawn Care Secrets: Mowing Right

Most people are killing their lawn by mowing it wrong. You need to

cut different grass types at specific heights or you're literally stressing your lawn

to death. Cool season grasses like fescue thrive at three to four inches,

while warm season varieties like Bermuda need just one to two inches. But here's what

nobody tells you. Never remove more than one third of the blade length in a

single cut. Or you shock the root system and invite weeds to take over.

Those perfect straight lines you see on golf courses? They're actually terrible for residential lawns.

Changing your mowing pattern every single week prevents soil compaction and keeps grass