Lawn scarifying

Our grass looks like it is 3 feet high, too wet to walk on it, so it will have to wait until we get back from Broadway in 10 days time

Admiral

A friend who was a green keeper told me that it was advantageous to cut grass throughout the year. He also said that the cuttings should not be removed, just mow whenever growth has occurred but never leaving this until the grass had grown much longer than the required length.  He even said that mowing during frosty conditions, if that gave a hard surface to work on, would do little if any harm and sometimes was a necessity. Apparently the growth bud in grass is at the soil level just above the roots and not, like most plants, in the uppermost tip of the leaf.

Like many of the others I really do need to get in my first cut, but its like walking on Jelly and I leave muddy footprints behind me. Clearly no cutting yet, and for the forseeable future too.

TF