{"id":29,"date":"2026-10-07T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/2026\/10\/07\/how-high-should-you-mow-a-season-by-season-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:15:30","slug":"how-high-should-you-mow-a-season-by-season-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/2026\/10\/07\/how-high-should-you-mow-a-season-by-season-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How high should you mow? A season-by-season guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mowing height is the single biggest lever you have on lawn health, and most lawns are cut too short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For cool-season grasses such as fescue and Kentucky bluegrass, aim for 3 to 3.5 inches through spring and fall and raise the deck to 4 inches in summer. Taller grass shades its own roots, holds moisture and crowds out weeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the one-third rule: never remove more than a third of the blade in a single cut. If the lawn got away from you during a wet week, bring it down over two or three mows rather than all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep the blade sharp. A dull blade tears the grass, leaving ragged brown tips that lose water and invite disease. We sharpen ours every few days in peak season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mowing height is the single biggest lever you have on lawn health, and most lawns are cut too short. For cool-season grasses such as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawn-care","tag-lawn-health","tag-mowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}