Have you ever heard of a burnt lawn? We’re not talking about a burn from a fire, or a carpet burn from when you put in hardwood floors and drug the old carpet to the street; we’re talking about lawn burn from mowing too often and/or too short. Most people burn their lawn without actually knowing it’s happening. That’s why we think this is crucial information for the community to know.

There are a multiple ways burning can happen to your lawn. One of the most common causes is when people continuously mow their lawn too short and scalp it. Now this is distinguishing from the spring scalping we’ve talked about in a previous article. A beginning of the season scalping is great to rid your yard of dead grass that’s blocking the sun from the new growth early on. However once the grass is green and growing, it is not good and healthy to scalp it, because you’re hindering the photosynthesis. Grass soaks in the sun through the blades, so the more blade there is, the more sun it absorbs. If you scalp a good healthy yard, you’ve taken it’s ability to take in the vital sunlight. That’s why you can’t cut it too short, or too often. Though lawns need to be mowed, if you mow it too often—even if it’s not scalped—it can still keep it from taking in enough sunlight.

Another cause that comes from some even slight inexperience is mowing with dull lawn mower blades. As we have also talked about in a previous article, the dangers of mowing with dull blades is more than you would think. Not only does it damage the blades by tearing them instead of cutting them cleanly, but the damage it causes can also impede the blades ability to soak in the sun, causing yard burn yet again.

There’s so many things to keep in mind when taking care of your lawn and landscaping. It’s time to skip the headache and time wasted on faulty technique and just hire the professionals at Cutting Edge Lawn Care.