Nope smart, just mowed my yard, I will break it up over the week....94 right now at or near 100 rest of the week...

 

It's lawn by lawn.

Some might be clay and hold water fairly well, some might be sandy.

Or, like yesterday, about 1/3 of the county was pounded with rain while 2/3's didn't get squat. A lot of our customers are in the 1/3.

 

try this........every day over 100F

 

Cant really compare southern turf and heat vs our turfgrass up here vs heat. I guess this question is more for the northern turf guys. Its probably much easier to heat track a lawn up here than down there.

 

We cut all day. haven’t seen 109 yet, but it’s been about 100. 2 weeks ago my one employee was out of town and I had some 12 hr days in 95 degrees with humidity, central ga

 

Makes me want AC for the work truck though…

 

I would say it varies lawn by lawn, however almost all (or all but like 2-3) of our lawns are irrigated so they tend to not dry out to much during the week. in addition we seem to be getting a decent amount of rain (or at least the weather people tend to forecast somewhere between 20-90% rain chance for the last few weeks and the next few weeks).
Heat wise: we seem to be tracking low-to-mid 90's with feel like temps of about 100-115.

 

I do the same thing . Stop at 1 in drought conditions over 90’ . Never had an issue. Some landscapers didn’t listen to me last year and mowed a regular schedule. They got chewed out big time for the tracks. It takes a while for them to go away. I’m cool season turf.

 

Hard to gets guys to stop running down same tracks........I began mowing it this week. I also started early morning.

 

Thats what I want to avoid on residential.

 

New hat for 100F+ days

 

I was thinking a beer can sombrero would provide more shade.

 

And most importantly, more hydration!

 

Told the guys after work tonight that for the remainder of the week and all of next week its going to be a 630 start time (instead of 730) and we are not working past 3:30. Heat indexes from 105-115 till next couple weeks. 5 gallon coolers on the truck have been getting iced and filled almost every day the last week.

 

Same thing up here in northern MN. Non irrigated lawns I try to do mornings or later afternoon. Most are on a 3 week schedule right now. Irrigated lawns I save for mid day heat.

 

Same thing up here in northern MN. Non irrigated lawns I try to do mornings or later afternoon. Most are on a 3 week schedule right now. Irrigated lawns I save for mid day heat.
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The only reason we are still mowing weekly in this heat is because till now we have had a cooler summer and in the last 2.5 weeks we have had 8 inches of rain from 4 storms. Normally its browning up by now.

 

Sweat sesh

 

 

We just planted a few stragglers a few weeks ago. We warned these customers that it can be really difficult to establish plants when it’s consistently over 100. Didn’t take long to get phone calls and messages about some plants looking stressed. We’ve sworn off any new installations until late September.

Really starting to think this is not the best business model for North Texas, seems like the best times for growing anything are Spring to early Summer, to Fall/Early Winter. Mid summer sizzles and winters are generally mild but it only takes one or two cold snaps to annihilate plants, and then we have nothing to replace them with until March.