A good day.

I'm always keen to learn, but learn from several places, and not just here, and yes, I learn new thing everyday, even a few minutes ago when I learned that your head greenkeeper mowed his lawn last week, when most parts of Europe and the UK were under several inches of snow (our snow only melted on wednesday) ...

I never tone it down, and always say it as I see it ....

I respond to a question by giving my honest advice and I never tell people to do it my way .... read what everyone says and if you don't like my advise, I don't really care to be honest

to be honest, I don't see why you are squeeling .... my advice in this instance is sound ... search google if you disagree then post back here

 

My points entirely, patronising and lacking in experience.

Read lots, study lots but get some hands on experience and you'll have the instinct to know when something's right. No one will ever stop learning, that's one of life's givens but for you to tell people you're learning then tell people how to do something when you clearly have very little idea is patronising. Discuss that point all you like but it's fact.

when most parts of Europe and the UK were under several inches of snow

Most parts of Europe and the UK!? Several inches of snow!? We had a beautiful half inch dusting last weekend which lasted all of 30 minutes but put a smile on my face. You may have had cold weather until Wednesday, we certainly didn't.

What does squeeling mean?

Search google!? Did you miss my point? Get some experience and stop regurgitating what you've read. I do care what's posted on GC, I like to read my fellow, trusted poster's experiences, not what they've read posted by someone on some other forum, especially one across the planet.

 

lets get one thing straight .... I said I will mow the lawns when the lowest temperature is not less than 6 degrees C .... this is what I have learned on several forums dedicated and frequented by groundsmen both in the UK and the USA .... this is the general concensus and many of the guys are self employed and do domestic lawn maintenance .... herewith one of the posts from today:... bear in mind, these guys are loosing money by not mowing

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?t=370939

there are similar posts on the uk lawn forum which is frequented by golf course groundsmen and sports field groundsmen

I also mentioned that it is not good practise to mow lawns in the winter as lawns may suffer and get diseased .... last week, parts of the UK had temperatures of -16 degrees and lower ... snow only melted in my area on wednesday

you say the head groundsman mowed his lawn last week? .... I think he is pulling your leg .... or you are telling 'porkies'

the weather forecast for this sunday is predicted to be cold again with frost in many places and possible snow in the north

weather forecast in a weeks time looks good, and then if the min temp is 6 degrees or higher, I will start mowing again

and this forum is frequented by many who are new to gardening, aswell as many guests who find this forum by google ... so by advising them to mow their lawns during winter is perhaps not good advice?

squeeling means that you are looking for an argument with me, and 'squeel like a piglet' ever so often trying to wind me up, but you are failing miserably, as it takes a lot more to wind me up

and take a tip .... lay off alcohol when posting on forums

 

My lawn is in a sorry state at the moment, even by its usual standards.

I have four dogs so my lawn is never great, but usually it does okay (although there are always gaps) because I fence it off during the winter to keep the dogs off it (otherwise it turns into a mud bath).

We have clay soil, so it's always soggy in winter. However, this winter, instead of being really cold, has been VERY very wet. Then we had the freezing weather for a couple of weeks, which has warmed up now but my lawn is looking very thin and patchy and where there is lawn it's yellow. I think it's going to need some proper TLC to get it looking half decent again.

I'm sure we'll get there though.

 

For what its worth our grass was under 5" of snow just over a week ago, yesterday I cut it and it 'cut like a dream' if you get what I mean; no wet soggy grass clogging the mower up

That's the veg patch dug over and grass cut within the last 2 days, it looks great; "it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing" :D

What does it really matter when we cut our lawns, everyones grass and opinions on it will differ, so lets just get on and enjoy our gardens...

 

My compost was spread on in the autmun, so its been nicely worked in by the worms and frost...

Also spread a touch more on from last year's growbags....:WINK1:

So there......:D

 

Have a look back at some of the posts we've exchanged that have been tongue in cheek, I thought some of them were funny. If you think for one moment I'd waste my time trying to wind you up you'd be seriously mistaken

You've missed the main point yet again though so I'll leave you to that.

With regards cutting in Winter it is perfectly safe to give the lawn a trim if conditions are right, follow the basic principles of a sharp blade at all times, not too much off the top. Don't cut when underwater, under snow or on ground frost.

I've cut twice this year in what was once referred to as the closed season. Similar amounts over the past years. The lawns look great, if it was to their detriment it wouldn't be done. If it was required weekly then i wouldn't be in the British Isles although sometimes I think they way things are going that it'll be a thing of the past soon and we'll be out there every month.

I'd love to say that our snow hung around for a while but sadly it didn't. Our cold snap was literally just that. We've had some glorious spring days already and I've already won three knobbly knee competitions.

Edit; If you have a customer who's lawn is looking winter swept and has put on growth wait for a dry day and see how it turns out. If you insist on using Google then you'll find plenty of articles stating it's ok to cut in Winter. If you can't balance the arguments yourself then the only thing to do is try it for yourself and monitor the results. I'm sure you'll be pleasanty surprised

I'm popping out for a couple tonight, let's see what happens :yess: