Long wet grass

What is the best way to cut long wet grass!

Obviously dry conditions would be preferable but our lawn has been slightly neglected over the past few weeks and is now about 6 inches long and we have but a Flymo to cut with and I see no let up in the weather allowing for a few days of dry weather.

Would it be best to set it on it's highest setting and gradually trim it down?

 

It'll clog the flymo up straight away.

 

If your lawn is large it might be worth getting a professional gardener with the right sort of mower to cut it back to manageable height.

 

A couple of weeks ago after much rain, my boss and I were bemused to see that there were people outside cutting the long wet grass. We discussed it briefly, and agreed that it was an odd time to choose to cut it. Its knackered now. All bare patches and yellow.

If you cut it when its wet, all that will happen is very, very quickly, the mower blades will get covered in mushy pulped grass, stopping them from actually cutting, and from that point on all that will happen is the mower will smash and tear the grass out instead of making a clean cut.

 

Thanks clueless1, as I figured!

I'm hoping it won't grow too much more before we get some sustained dry weather.......if at all

 

Scatz , I think a few of us are in the same position , trying to get the last cut of the year in . We need about 3 days without rain but with a bit of wind to get it just about cuttable .

 

Well, I put the Flymo on it's highest setting and cut it once then lowered the setting and cut it again! Not perfect but a whole lot better and more manageable now!

The very bottom bit of our garden gets very boggy when it rains so I had to strim that down with my new toy......a petrol brush cutter/strimmer, which made very light work of it

 

Need to give mine a good mow when I get the chance, I was going to make a thread about but it's good to know I'm not only one in this predicament. The rain over the last month or so has made it all shoot up after that dry summer. Silly grass, when will you learn.