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From the C's Lawn Service Website:
Many customers of C's Lawn Service have difficulty deciding whether they want weekly or bi-weekly mowing. Some go straight to bi-weekly because of the cost. Others want a pristine lawn, and choose weekly. In this article, we'll go through the reasons why you would choose either one, but why weekly mowing is ultimately the best choice.
When you think of a perfect lawn, what do you see? A golf course? Golf courses often spend millions of dollars a year to maintain their grass, including daily mowing and irrigation. Obviously, it is not practical for homeowners or lawn care services to water and mow their properties every day, but lawn experts are sure of one thing: cutting consistently is key.
Getting a Consistent Cut
In the summer, grass should really be mowed every 4 to 5 days. This can help get a greener lawn because the grass will get used to being cut at a certain height most of the time. However, cutting this often is not always needed, as sometimes the weather may make the grass slow down growing just a tiny bit. Weekly mowing is the very happy medium between too often and not often enough.
Weekly Mowing - The Happy Medium
As a lawn care service, we know that consistently mowing every week will help yield a healthier, greener lawn. This is why we try so hard to return to your property and mow on the same day every week. Homeowners often find that weekly mowing is the most practical and economical method for lawn maintenance of a standard lawn simply because the lawn will most likely end up being greener and the cut will be more uniform.
The Delusion of Bi-Weekly Mowing
Bi-weekly mowing mainly originated from lawn care services taking on too many clients, and having to cut their mowing frequency in half. Many clients liked the option of bi-weekly due to the cost, and flocked to it without thinking about how it could affect their lawn. Because of this, almost every lawn care service had to start offering a weekly or bi-weekly schedule to keep up with the new demand for the cheaper service.
And of course, with this lower cost, comes downfalls. Bi-weekly mowing can result in brown or dry grass that is not at it's prime. This stems from how grass grows. Blades of grass retain most of their moisture in stolons, or stalks. If you let healthy grass grow for 2 weeks, the stolons grow too tall, and when you cut it, you cut away most of the moisture. This also removes a lot of the green in your lawn.
In the end, saving money with bi-weekly mowing may seem like a good idea, but you may almost end up paying more. When grass is stressed over and over, it dies. C's Lawn Service doesn't want your grass to die, and you don't want to be spending more money for overseeding and sod because you simply didn't select weekly when requesting your mowing service.
Save time, money, and headaches by staying with a weekly mowing schedule.