My Kentucky Blue Blend seems to spread faster when she's a little higher. My opinion is to let her grow a little higher. Helps get those roots nice and strong thus helps her get ready for the summer. +1 on the milorganite. Awesome summer fertilizer. Won't burn the grass, get the benefits of organic and a slow release nitrogen will get her green with a slow growth meaning you won't have to cut it every couple days and she won't burn out like she does after using up all the quick release nitrogens in synthetic fertilizer. Plus, longer helps control nasty summer weeds. Best of luck

Well I bought the Fiskars Momentum Reel Mower and I have it set to about 2 notches below the lowest which I believe is about 1.75" or so. I bought it about three weeks ago and we've mowed every 3 days since we got it. I haven't noticed a huge difference in the way the lawn looks yet other than it is nicely manicured all the time. I trim every two weeks. The grass doesn't look anything like the above pictured lawns which are really nice looking. I mean it's green but it's got a fair amount of brown to it as well. I'm watering once a week for an hour in each zone but haven't done the tuna can test yet. I stagger that once a week watering into 4 different runs of 15 minutes each to try to avoid run-off. I am going to put more fertilizer down next weekend. I'm very much enjoying the Fiskars mower. It takes me about 30 minutes to mow and I calculated out the lawn square footage to right at about 2000 square feet. My wife is helping me out with some of the mowing and she will get up and mow at 6am during the week and it doesn't wake our neighbors. I was hoping to see the grass thicken up more now that I'm watering properly and mowing lower and more frequently. I'm not giving up hope yet. I'm staring out at my lawn a couple times per day and trying to see if it's looking better yet while continuing to read these forums. I'll definitely scalp it to 1" next year and try to maintain that height all season.

I've been growing and maintaining Bermuda, St. Augustine, and other grass on my own since about 1961 so I'm not totally inexperienced. I know that tx weed has a sod farm. That also means he has good soil, equipment, irrigation, and time to handle anything nature can throw at him. The average homeowner usually has marginal soil, sometimes very little irrigating capability, little time, and can't always mow often enough. Mowing Bermuda at less than one inch in this 95 degree heat will leave your yard brown.....unless you have almost perfect soil, great irrigation, and can mow and fertilize it often enough. I was mowing my Bermuda yard with a 9 foot Jacobsen reel type fairway mower earlier this year at about 7/8" and needed to mow everyday. I was cutting off a half inch or more everyday. If I waited several days I'd have to use a rotary mower and then the fairway mower because the grass was growing so fast. The best way to help your grass survive this heat wave is to raise the mowing height some, water often, mow often so as to not chop too much off at once.

fourstringdrums, I suppose I could go a little lower for the winter, but honestly I don't really want to. Considering that you live in Massachusetts snow is a given, so you can mow lower for the winter, gradually down to maybe 2-1/2". (It is a good idea to go a little lower for the winter when snow is an issue). At this height a rider should mulch the leaves better than where you are now. I have a rider so sharpening the blade isn't a personal option for me as I can't get to it. I was going to call the store I bought it from though and have them clean under the deck anyway. I haven't been able to do it as a result. You definitely want to get your blade sharpened! At least once per year. I do understand that you cannot do it yourself, so yes, check with the place you bought from, or a mower shop. I haven't measured it, but at the second to highest height I'm at maybe 3.3". I think my top height is 3.8". I would recommend that when you get a chance you should measure the height of each setting on you mower and write them down.