Anyone mowing?

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058285716/anyone-mowing

Lots of people know are hacking away.So go ahead and do it.Maybe wait until later this week.

billyhead

I carried out the 1st cut since last Autumn on Saturday with the manual push mower. It was tough.

bmc58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323246#Comment_120323246

I know all that.I used an iron sulphate product for the past three years ,yes it turned the moss black and killed some of it.i raked it out but it's back as bad as ever now.I'm just going to mow away now.Scrape up as much as the moss as I can during the summer and see what happens.That moss killer is pretty dear to be buying bags of it.

deisedude

Bought a bag of Green Force Lawn Gold which is basically an eco friendly alternative to Iron Sulphate that doesn't require raking off black moss. Will report back on if it works!

leakyboots

Same problem as above, bits of moss in corners along the walls or where the sun doesn't usually reach. What's the best stuff to use to combat this and re-grow grass... I'd love to not have to do any raking!!

looksee

I have to admit I have a soft spot for moss, its all over my garden, but it is of the lush curly fronds (sphagnum? I don't know) variety. However if you have got that scruffy patchy stuff I can understand why you would want to get rid of it.

Unfortunately removing it will not guarantee that grass will grow, especially if there is no sun. Could you take it off in an interesting shape and replace with something low growing shade tolerant ground cover. I believe there are shade tolerant grass mixtures now, but I don't know anything about them.

Supercell

Cut the grass last week and needs it again this week, the cutting season is upon us!

Xander10

The rain showers are ruining attempts to get at it. Mind you the good windy conditions too, so doesn't seemed swamped.

Might motivate myself to give it a high cut

joujoujou

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120315511#Comment_120315511

Another one yesterday. Even less collected, just 4 baskets, second lowest setting again. No growth yet.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120454430#Comment_120454430

I'm cutting every 10 days or so. Still a fairly high cut but there is certainly plenty of growth.

The Continental Op

Tons of growth. Third cut today and you wouldn't think it was cut just over a week ago. Not too far away I saw one farmer taking a silage cut!

I'll be lucky to get away with 16 280 litre grass boxes filled to capacity (uncompacted thats 4 cubic meters). There's the big problem what to do with the grass cuttings!!!!!!!!! I've slowly landscraped the area where I usually dump the grass so this year I might be making some much longer runs to a new more out of the way dumping area.

Zardoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120454618#Comment_120454618

April is a tough month, grass grows too fast ,and May too and then there is hardly any growth in June and July.

Think my grass is more like the grass you see in a field.

Back is as bad as it ever was , full of thatch after alot of scarification in early October, waste of time I think, might just have to reseed it but its a huge job.