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When Is Your First Day To Mow The Lawn?

California. ...gardener comes every Thursday, 52 weeks a year.

Jeff
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Go to wal-mart and find anything with the chemical 2-4-D in it. Spray your yard with it. Staying away from your wife's flowers.
This will kill everything but the grass.
If you have creeping Charlie this may not be enough, dandelions will probably need spot sprayed with roundup in the fall or dug up by hand.
I use some stuff called Gunslinger on the creeping Charlie, it's a mixture if 2-4-D and Tordon.
I don't usually start mowing until the middle of April, but By then I could probably bale my lawn.
For creeping charlie and dandelions get Trimec and spray it on in the fall after the first good frost. Wont harm the flowers unless you spray it on the flower bed. The weeds are taking nutrients down to the roots at that time of year. Residual will be there in the spring.
Trimec is a mix of 2-4d and dicamba (Banvel). It will take a couple years of doing this to really wipe the creeping charlie out. Dandelions will never stop. Dandelion seed can lay dormant for a few hundred years and still germinate. Crabgrass killer needs to be put down when the lilacs are just starting to bloom around here.
 
With another 3-5” of snow coming in Wednesday night, mowing wont be happening any time soon!! Im guessing sometime late May at this rate!!
 
I don't have any lawns anymore,
I retired my lawnmower about 10 years ago

up here if we had a lawn, we'd mow it about
maybe 42 time {weeks} a/per year, some years less, some more
only the coolest months Dec. Jan. & Feb, maybe once a month probably
{this year far into Mar.} :luvplace:
where we get snow or the grass is sort of dormant, slow growing
we don't need to mow much, during them times...

Thank God I don't have to do that **** anymore, :lol:
I have mostly gravel now, just the occasional weed here & there...
 
When Arte Johnson peeks through the high grass blades and says, "Very interesting".
 
July 5th- start mowing
July 12th- leaves start falling
July 30th - snow falls

Ok, so it doesnt start snowing til August
My bad
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When I get woke up by the John Deere self-propelled with the better-half behind it. Screw the coffee & get the tractor fired up or get dirty looks for the rest of the day!
 
Monsoon season just started. If like last year the grass will be a foot tall before its dry enough to get the tractor threw it without getting stuck in the mud. It could still snow any time in the next 3 weeks.
Best guess would be in 2 weeks if possible.
 
Three weeks ago.
 
Go to wal-mart and find anything with the chemical 2-4-D in it. Spray your yard with it. Staying away from your wife's flowers.
This will kill everything but the grass.
Go to a farm suppply store if you have one near and buy a gallon of 2-4-D and mix your own. MUCH cheaper, but don't get it near tomato plants. If they even smell this stuff they will be DOA by the next day.

If you have creeping Charlie this may not be enough, dandelions will probably need spot sprayed with roundup in the fall or dug up by hand.
I use some stuff called Gunslinger on the creeping Charlie, it's a mixture if 2-4-D and Tordon.
Yeah, 2-4-D won't work on Creeping Charlie. He's as tough as the other "creeping Charlie". Gordon's "Trimec" will do it. I forget the magic ingredient it has that 2-4-D doesn't though. I think it is dicamba.

My first cut will probably be late April or early May, depending on the weather.
 
Go to a farm suppply store if you have one near and buy a gallon of 2-4-D and mix your own. MUCH cheaper, but don't get it near tomato plants. If they even smell this stuff they will be DOA by the next day.


Yeah, 2-4-D won't work on Creeping Charlie. He's as tough as the other "creeping Charlie". Gordon's "Trimec" will do it. I forget the magic ingredient it has that 2-4-D doesn't though. I think it is dicamba.

My first cut will probably be late April or early May, depending on the weather.
Dicaamba is even more volatile than 2-4-D. Extreme caution is needed. You could kill your garden as well as your neighbors.
The stuff I use is called Gunslinger. It's 2-4-D and Tordon. With some adherent oil mixed in.
May brown the grass a bit but it will come out if it
 
I just thatched a week ago, I usually am the first to mow in the neighborhood, so if we get some moisture, in about 3 weeks it may need cut.
 
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