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When it is dry, ☀️ cut high!
Hi Reader
The phone slowed down a bit this week but I don't mind. We have plenty of work to keep us busy anyway.
Although my phone is the place where a lot of our leads come from, sometimes I feel it would be nice to leave it at home it for a while.
The weather has been a bit mad and we have been getting some really hot days here in Hamilton. It can honestly be like working in a sauna when that sun and humidity get going.
I heard a contractor mention the other day that “I am mowing dust in Hamilton”.
We on the other hand have dust on around two percent of our lawns.
It is not because we are mowing different areas, it comes down to reading a lawn and the weather.
You can't just mow a lawn the same way all year round regardless of the time of year and the conditions. You need to read the lawn and adjust.
Around six weeks ago when it started drying out, we started mowing a little higher on some lawns. Having the grass a little higher allows it to catch and retain moisture in the mornings. Our lawns have noticed the heat but they haven't got as much die-off as they could have had
This is a photo I took this week
Neither of these lawns has irrigation. We mow the one on the left. The contractor who has been mowing the one on the right has not been reading the lawn. We have cut the one on the left high and mulched the last few cuts.
The customer on the right will probably postpone the mowing as soon, as the lawn looks dead.
We mow our lawn two weekly all year round.
The moral of the story is “When it is dry, cut high”
This week I listened to Grunch of Giants a book by R. Buckminster Fuller. It follows money through history and looks at why it always gravitates towards the selected few. It's a hard read but a short book.
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Anyway, get out there, mow lawns, and have fun
Stuart
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