Caring for your lawn in Denver’s hot, arid climate is an ongoing process! Here are some good tips to help keep your lawn as healthy as possible during these hot summer months:

Watering:
Make sure your sprinklers or irrigation system gives established bluegrass lawns about 1 ½” of precipitation a week. Avoid water waste by monitoring how much water your sprinkler puts out and by setting your sprinkler to run in a way that avoids runoff away from the lawn. Let us know if you’d like us to come out and tune up your irrigation system!

Mowing:
Raise your mowing height on cool season turf lawns (like bluegrass) to 3” and continue to mow as needed removing only 1/3 of the blade at each mowing. Keep in mind, a very short lawn is under a great deal of stress all the time. This makes it vulnerable to attack from insects, weeds and fungi.

NOTE: Remove no more than 1/3 of total length on any one cutting. If grass gets very long, remove grass in stages with a two to three day time span between cuttings to prevent stress.

Change it up when you Mow!
Grass tends to grow in the direction that it is cut, so to prevent your lawn from appearing to lean one way or the other,  vary your mowing direction each time. This will keep your grass looking straighter as well as preventing a washboard effect. Furthermore, mowing in different directions tends to cause a different angle of cut which is better for the grass. To make sure that you mow the entire lawn, overlap each pass. Mowing the lawn soon after it has been watered will cause the grass to stick to the mower blades and clog the mower, and can spread disease. Wait until the grass blades have had time to dry before mowing.

Though we don’t offer mowing services, we do everything else to keep your lawn healthy and green, including lawn fertilization, over-seeding, aeration, weed control, sprinkler system design and installation, sprinkler repair, sprinkler turn on and turn offs, winterization, and more.

View our Lawn Care Services here.