Hi,
With much help and advice from this forum, I seeded my first lawn in late September. Its taken really well and I gave it what I expected to be its only mow of the year in early November. Given the warm weather however, it continued to grow, so I mowed again in late November on the highest setting - i.e. leaving the lawn as long as I could, but still took quite a bit off given how much it had grown (to the point that I was worried it may have been too much) which I believe can be a cause of yellowing.
Initially it didn't seem to have caused a problem, but in the last few days I have noticed it starting to go a bit yellow, and on checking it today, its now worryingly yellow (although predominantly green, I'd say maybe 1/4 yellow).
Due to the warm weather we are still having the grass is again long (5-6 inches, with a few extreme areas pushing 8 inches). Should I mow again now or leave it until spring? Obviously its wet most of the time at the minute and I'm worried that if the weather does go cold, it may be bad for it? (current 5-day forecast for my area shows it dropping to about 5 degrees towards the end of that period).
Is there anything else I should do?
Any help would be appreciated, as I obviously don't want my hard work and success to this point to be undone.
Thanks
With much help and advice from this forum, I seeded my first lawn in late September. Its taken really well and I gave it what I expected to be its only mow of the year in early November. Given the warm weather however, it continued to grow, so I mowed again in late November on the highest setting - i.e. leaving the lawn as long as I could, but still took quite a bit off given how much it had grown (to the point that I was worried it may have been too much) which I believe can be a cause of yellowing.
Initially it didn't seem to have caused a problem, but in the last few days I have noticed it starting to go a bit yellow, and on checking it today, its now worryingly yellow (although predominantly green, I'd say maybe 1/4 yellow).
Due to the warm weather we are still having the grass is again long (5-6 inches, with a few extreme areas pushing 8 inches). Should I mow again now or leave it until spring? Obviously its wet most of the time at the minute and I'm worried that if the weather does go cold, it may be bad for it? (current 5-day forecast for my area shows it dropping to about 5 degrees towards the end of that period).
Is there anything else I should do?
Any help would be appreciated, as I obviously don't want my hard work and success to this point to be undone.
Thanks