mowing too low

[David Haggerty]

No this isn't one of my lawns. :rolleyes:
We pass this place on our route.
The homeowner mowed this a couple of weeks ago.
I'm guessing at about an inch:dizzy:
He always did mow too low. This spring we got a little dry spell.
It used to be a nice lawn of bluegrass.

[Gravely_Man]

I don't see what the problem is….He is not mowing too low the dirt is just too high.:D



Gravely_Man

[Green Pastures]

That is some DEAD grass, not dormant, not heat stressed that's dead. :(

[Esby]

Looks like his neighbor did something right....atleast his is green!:D

[sbvfd592]

wow
:eek:

[lawncare3]

Those kind of people piss me off. I am tired of people too lazy to mow; or they just don't want to take the time. I really hate it when it's 1.5 inches and they say " I don't like to mow it"

One neighbor that I use to live by mowed ONCE every 2 months. He said " it's just grass and anyone can do it I just would never pay someone over $5 to mow it" He also said "gas is expensive"

I told him I would give him gas and oil if he would just get off his lazy @$$ and mow it.

Sorry I had to vent but those kind of people piss me off. :angry:

[turfman59]

Looks like the Roundup got mixed in with the Liquid Fertilizer

[ELC/IA]

yeah that had to be killed with something other than the mower you would think there would at least be a green weed out there somewhere lol

[cos]

Not a single weed alive. Round up?

[mowngrow]

looks like round-up to me too!!

[darryl gesner]

That's an easy fix. I'd be more worried about the purple sky!:D

ooops, messed up. Nevermind!

[rodfather]

Walking on that is gonna sound like you're walking on Rice Krispies...that lawn is DOA big time!

[darryl gesner]

Here it is.

[turfman59]

what life must be like in your world (purple haze all in my brain )

[LawnMower]

I know some people around here that would love that to happen to there lawn. That means they don’t have to mow it, or pay someone to mow it. Now all the guy has to do, is paint it green. I remember when my grandfather was around, he would have just assume pave the whole yard and paint it green. Heck I bet you could paint stripes into the pavement.

Remember the Brady bunch? They had fake grass. It was all the rage back then.

[David Haggerty]

I don't think it's Roundup. It was a pretty nice lawn. Not really in need of renovation, until now:dizzy:
But I'm not going to go ask him. I've got that feeling he really wouldn't want to talk about it.

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

[tiedeman]

what the heck!!! How come the neighbors and the property across the road is green, but theirs isn't? I think that there was something sprayed on that lawn.

[turfman59]

wait a minute. You gotta ask
look at the educational value it will be for all of us. I have an idea of what it is. Has this lawn ever been irrigated?

[tiedeman]

I thought about the whole irrigation thing as well...but something is my mowing mind of mine (thats short for MMM) tells me that there is something more involved here.

[David Haggerty]

I wish I knew all the circumstances here.
But I'd bet the factor that killed the lawn was mowing too low.
Remember, this is bluegrass. They might have fertilized at the same time or something, but what killed it was cut too short then it turned hot and dry. I've seeen it hapen a couple of times before, but in the summer, not in April.
Besides if he were spraying Roundup to kill it, he shouldn't have taken off most all of the foilage first.

Here's the best pic I have to show how really close it was mowed. (It hasn't grown a lot since it was cut:rolleyes: )

There aren't any irrrigation companies here. I think they all drowned or something. The local weather station holds the record in the state for rainfall for most of the last ten years. And I think the state average is 37" per year.

The spring rains just didn't come this year. I think we were 4" below normal. But it's raining right now. :D