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Last cut of the year?

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  • #122
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    beertons wrote: »
    Raging I didn't get out to top the lawn today. Too busy with the dinner.

    I did mine in pouring rain on 21st December, I’ll do it again later this week.


  • #123
    Truckermal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    I done mine today it took ages as it was very wet and really long but looks so good and tidy now!


  • #124
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    If you're cutting today, maybe it's the 1st cut of the year rather than the last?

    Depends which way you look at it!


  • #125
    Truckermal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    NIMAN wrote: »
    If you're cutting today, maybe it's the 1st cut of the year rather than the last?

    Depends which way you look at it!

    Today!!! Actually started it when I came home from work at 8am.... I love pissing off the neighbours...:p


  • #126
    Curly head
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭Curly head


    My neighbors were cutting away last Friday. That sound of lawnmower engines was all around. Spring was deffo in the air. Yesterday gloom n mist n it never got fully bright.
    Today it seems to be blowing a gale. The climate is surely changing .
    Happy cutting to all.


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  • #127
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭secman


    Had the ride -on on trickle charge for the winter, but got fresh petrol yesterday and cut the grass, emptied the box 3 times full and a bit. Grass full of moisture, tractor was a mess, power washed it and put it back on trickle charge. Needs a service now for the year ahead.


  • #128
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    monkeynuz wrote: »
    I did mine in pouring rain on 21st December, I’ll do it again later this week.

    Did it on Wednesday and Friday it had grown a tiny bit in two days.


  • #129
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,790 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Grass probably does need a cut, but it's early days yet, still plenty of time for cold icy weather, I like to leave a bit of protection for the grass for that type of weather


  • #130
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I nearly did the back garden yesterday - bone dry and quite lush. I'll give it trim later in the week.


  • #131
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Grass probably does need a cut, but it's early days yet, still plenty of time for cold icy weather, I like to leave a bit of protection for the grass for that type of weather

    Doesn't need protecting, as long as you don't cut the same day as a hard frost.

    That being said I have cut frosty grass before with no ill effects.


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  • #132
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    I nearly did the back garden yesterday - bone dry and quite lush. I'll give it trim later in the week.

    I nearly did my own the other day, was looking a bit long and it hadn't rained in quite a while.

    I thought, "Ill do it tomorrow" and then it poured that night!


  • #133
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Just in for a break while cutting mine. Doubt I'll finish today but will get a good bit done which will help make it drier walking around the garden. Grass is very dry today (West Waterford).


  • #134
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I did a cut but someone else's garden (hey at least I get paid for that!), it was very green and thick, May grass not January.


  • #135
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    monkeynuz wrote: »
    Did it on Wednesday and Friday it had grown a tiny bit in two days.

    It has already grown another half inch at least, think I’ll cut it again tomorrow or Thursday.


  • #136
    staples7
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭staples7


    I need a few cows in mine at this stage not a lawnmower :(


  • #137
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Temperatures of up to 14c this week.

    Is it time to start up again for 2019, or just a temporary blip?

    Maybe we need a First Cut of the Year Thread?


  • #138
    thekooman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭thekooman


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Temperatures of up to 14c this week.

    Is it time to start up again for 2019, or just a temporary blip?

    Maybe we need a First Cut of the Year Thread?
    I'm putting sheep into ours this week! :-) it's turned into meadow


  • #139
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Weather been great last two days.

    Got a high cut done yesterday and just finished another cut at the next level down.

    Looks a lot neater already.

    Will get a weed n feed down in early March, weather permitting.


  • #140
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Temperatures of up to 14c this week.

    Is it time to start up again for 2019, or just a temporary blip?

    Maybe we need a First Cut of the Year Thread?
    Cut mine today filled 2 coal sacks - small lawn in back,tiny in the front- need a sheep


  • #141
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Been removing moss and thatch with a rake the last while. Horrible task, lawns are too small to get a machine in and too big for a rake...

    Plan is a high cut again soon and then another de-thatch, re-seed and leave for 4 weeks.

    Getting rid of front lawns for wild meadows for a test run, Both are small and over run with moss, which doesn't take too long to rake/peel off. Will see how it goes and can always convert back to lawn next year if needed.


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  • #142
    dar_cool
    Registered Users Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭dar_cool


    Cut one side of the garden yesterday afternoon, great to get that fresh cut grass smell so early. Will cut the other side today, John deere started on first turn of the key after not being touched since october 😊


  • #143
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Another cut front and back today. The birds love a freshly cut lawn.


  • #144
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    I did my first cut today. I have a lot of moss patches. If I remove it. When is the best time to put seed down.


  • #145
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Late march is probably ideal. Your other option is to wait and treat with mo-bacter in May when temps are well up.


  • #146
    glwaymiko
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭glwaymiko


    Got the snapper out if hibernation today, great to get the first cut out of the way .


  • #147
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,132 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Done
    And was not pure torture due to the kind weather


  • #148
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,961 ✭✭✭cena


    is it no early to cut grass?


  • #149
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    cena wrote: »
    is it no early to cut grass?

    No. I haven’t stopped, four cuts in January.


  • #150
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    cena wrote: »
    is it no early to cut grass?


    Cut it twice already and will need another run tomorrow


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  • #151
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Don't think it'll be the last cut, but I was able to get a cut done today with the first decent day in about a month up here!

    Soil still very sodden, but that's understandable considering its basically rained every day for a month, often incredibly heavily.

    Thing I noticed about lawns that haven't been cut in maybe 3 or so weeks, is that it looks like individual blades of grass before the cut, but once you cut it, it takes on a more solid mass of grass, almost moss like. Gone are the individual blades. But if you cut it every couple of days during good weather, it always looks like grass. Anyone else notice this, or is it just mine?

    And I only topped it today, due to the fact that it was so high.

    Hopefully we'll get a decent spell of dry weather over the next week or two so I can get at it more often.


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