On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:55:30 -0400, wrote:

Luke wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:12:31 -0400, wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

wrote:
What is so bad about mowing a lawn when it is wet (from dew)?
I do not bag the clippings - let them go back into the ground.

LB

....and worst of all, it gets green grass stains on your white sneakers. :-)

Don

Thanks to all that replied. Having no choice (house is being shown to possible
buyer in a few hours) I went ahead anyway. Mower is 6hp about 20 inch and there
does not appear to have been much clumping. Poor cutting is not much of an
issue cause "lawn" is not that great anyway. My "white sneakers" are a pair of
old golf shoes that I got very heap about 20 years ago. They already are very
stained. Using the shoes aerates the lawn while I cut:-))

Why didn't you say you needed to cut the lawn wet this *one time* in
the first place? A little more practice withholding significant
information and you can be a politician ;-). The golf shoe cleats
don't "aerate" the lawn, they just dig it up :-).
[snippage]

Actually not a one time thing if it looks OK since it is cooler in the AM.

Yeah, know about that. Still, it's best to wait till the lawn dries
off ... but it's your lawn ... for now ;-).

What makes you think the spikes dig up the lawn. If golf shoes dug up the grass would
the golf course folks use them?

Golf courses have grounds crews to re-seed, re-sod, water, fertilize,
aerate, roll, fill, etc. and otherwise repair damage caused by those
they charge for the privilege of spoiling a good walk.

--
Luke
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