Lawn mowing season is fast approaching in Fort Smith, and at Cutting Edge Lawn Care, we’re very excited. We wanted to drop a few quick tips to keep in mind when mowing and caring for the most tricky grass around: Zoysia

Zoysia is a beautiful, lush, luxurious looking grass, unless you mess up when it’s time to start mowing. Common mistakes when it comes to mowing zoysia are: Mowing too short, Mowing too high, not bagging when needed, not scalping in the spring, creating ruts with the mower. Here are some tips to avoid these mistakes.

Mowing too low, and Mowing too high. It is more harmful to mow it too low, because zoysia is slow to recover, but if you let it grow too long, and keep it too high, it can also not be as healthy as it should. The best height for Zoysia is between 2.5” to 4”.

You don’t always have to bag Zoysia, but better safe than sorry. Thatch build up is the enemy of Zoysia, and cutting too many clippings without bagging, is the quickest way to create it.

Ruts can be created when you always mow in the same pattern. With a Zoysia lawn, the soil is usually softer so running even a push mower over the same path week after week creates noticeable unevenness which can result in scalping and eventually ruts.

As we wrote in one of our first articles, it is very important to actually scalp zoysia in the spring when it starts to turn green. Even though scalping in the summer can be deadly, in the spring, when it starts to turn green but before it’s very tall, it’s very helpful to cut away the old dead grass and bag it, so that it doesn’t compact under the new grass and create thatch.

We hope you find these tips helpful and informative for this lawn mowing season. And as always, remember the easiest way to take care of your lawn is to hire a professional lawn mowing service. Of course, we prefer you hire Cutting Edge Lawn Care.