Mowing freshly seeded lawn

The title is slightly misleading, because most of my lawn is well established, but I reseeded a few bald patches and they are now greening up nicely but slowly.

I want to mow the lawn again, but last time I did it (a few days ago) I had to carefully go round the freshly seeded bits, which is somewhat awkward and has resulted in overgrown tufts of grass round the new bits.

How can I make my lawn tidy without ripping out the new grass that probably hasn't laid down good roots yet?

Cheers

 

If you have a mower with a roller on the back you can just tilt it up onto the roller slightly when you get to a newly seeded patch.

You could perhaps do that with a wheeled mower as well, but not as easily perhaps, but you could always lift up the setting on the mower when you get to that patch of new seed to a higher setting, and mow as normal, and lower it down again when you mow the rest. The lawn would have the appearance of it all been cut at one height.

I would say if the seed has been growing for over 6 weeks then you would perhaps be ok, or test a patch - see if you can pull some of the newly seeded area out with your hand, and you will know how much of the mower it could handle.

Hope this Helps!

 

I do the "tilt-up" thing, which has the benefit that the new grass gets rolled.

Either way, when you first cut, it helps to have sharp blades - otherwise the tend to pull the seedlings out of the ground!! :(

 

Sharp blades and a high cut, try to avoid running the wheels over the new areas, either that or mow around the new areas then tidy up after with shears.