Mowing Wet Grass Is A Bad Idea

It's just rained and your lawn desperately needs to be mowed. In other words, it could use a "Hair Cut" and you don't feel like waiting for a sunny day. The grass is wet and the lawn is drenched before breaking out that lawnmower you seriously should consider a few things. In this article, we will talk about why you definitely do not want to mow wet grass. We have included a few reasons on why you shouldn't.

•  Lawnmowers aren't CHEAP

If you mow your lawn when the grass is wet you risk damaging or ruining your lawnmower. Your lawnmower is forced to work harder and wet grass can cause rust on metal parts underneath your mower. Wet grass can clump up and cause a clog in your lawnmower which can ruin the lawnmower itself.  

• It Can Hurt Your Lawn 

Since the grass is not dry some blades of grass will be standing and some will not. When you go

to cut your lawn you will not get the blades of grass that are wet and weighed down by the rain
and this will cause "cowlicks" in your lawn. The blades of grass that do reach the mower will
not get properly cut which can cause fungus to spread throughout your lawn.

• Mowing A Wet Lawn Is Extra Work

Do you like to mow the lawn? Mowing a wet lawn is just going to take you more time and effort than it would to mow a lawn that wasn't wet. The odds are you will have to mow the lawn again sooner than later because it wasn't cut properly. Cleaning up wet grass can also be a lot harder than cleaning up grass that isn't wet.

• It's Unsafe

You want to make sure that you always go with safety first. Mowing wet grass can actually cause injury.  Wet grass can cause quite a slippery landscape. You could fall and hurt yourself or your lawnmower can slip on a slop or on a hill. You don't want to lose control of the mower and fall it could end up in serious injury. Make sure you don't use an electric mower in the rain or to mow wet grass also.

I hope this article brought some awareness to the dangers of mowing wet grass and how serious the consequences can be. We want everyone out there this spring and summer to practice safety first.


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