Not sure how to mow your lawns correctly in winter in NZ?

With winter on a few months away, the motivation of getting outside on the cooler days to do the lawn mowing drifts away. Just like your household bills don’t stop coming in if you aren’t working, your lawns will keep growing in winter! Although slower, it the grass will grow in winter.

You do need to look for opportunities in winter for lawn care, as you will get the odd warmer day where the grass is dry enough for a quick tidy up! Rake the leaves and debri off the top, then set your lawn mower setting to take approx 15% off the top of the grass. This will give it a nice trim and keep the lawn healthy looking. 

There is no need to scarify the lawn in the winter, so if ‘bald patches’ appear, don’t worry about it too much until temperature warm up and the grass has a fair chance of survival and growth!

If you like to get outside in summer to cut the grass yourself, but don’t like mowing in the winter months, make sure you call a professional lawn mowing services company to do it for you in winter. If you don’t mow the lawn at all over the cooler months, you risk the grass getting too high, dying, thinning, getting a disease and overall look untidy.

Could be a good time to put your mower in to be serviced! Sharpen the blades, change any filters and lubricate any moving parts ready for summer.

Here are some simple tip for lawn care over winter:

• Don’t walk on the lawn when it’s freezing or there is frost… you run the risk of snapping the grass off.
• Keep it raked so sunshine can have a direct line of site to the lawn
• If you plan to let your lawns grow over winter, still pay attention to trimming around the edges to keep some kind of uniformity to the look and to keep it ‘under control’
• Next time you’re in the hardware store like Mitre 10, Bunnings, RD1 or Hammer Hardware etc, take a look in their lawn care section for any fertiliser, or any tricks and tips they can offer to keep your lawn looking green, alive and great in winter!

If it all sounds like too much work, call us for a free quote!