The Benefits of Mowing Your Lawn

If you’re a landscaper working for clients or a homeowner with front and back yards to attend to, you want those lawns to look as good as possible. Part of keeping grass looking great is ensuring that it’s healthy, and mowing your lawn on a regular basis is a big factor in maintaining the health of your grass. Here are just a few of the many benefits of mowing your lawn, courtesy of your local lawn mower dealer, Eastman Equipment Company.

1. Reintroduces Nutrients to the Soil

When you mow your lawn, the cut pieces of grass are able to compost reasonably quickly, particularly if you have a mulching kit. Adding that grass back to your yard allows the nutrients held in those trimmings to absorb back into the soil, which in turn nourishes the grass that’s growing above. 

2. Removes Weeds

Sure, you could grab a weed digger and sit on your yard, digging out each weed painstakingly by hand. Or you could mow your lawn and chop down those weeds quickly. If you mow often enough, the weeds won’t have much chance to flourish, since grass can grow much faster than weeds. 

3. Reduce Debris

Before you mow your lawn, you have to walk around it and pick up everything that’s been strewn across the grass. Kids’ toys, dog toys, gardening tools, fallen branches and more will get picked up and your yard will look so much tidier. Also, mowing your lawn helps to chop up small pieces of debris, including some amount of fallen leaves.

4. Ensures Consistent Grass Growth

Want your yard to look even and nice? Mowing trims all the blades to the same height, which in turn allows each blade to access the same amount of water and sunlight. The whole lawn can grow more consistently with plenty of nutrition. Also, mowing your lawn helps to weed out those weaker shoots of grass that are too brittle to survive and inclined to turn brown instead. Removing weak blades allows the stronger blades more nutrients and space to flourish.

5. Get a Work Out

While this benefit doesn’t help your lawn itself, it helps you! When you mow your grass, you’re being active and spending time in the sunshine, which helps your body produce vitamin D. Your blood pressure can lower and your immunity improves whenever you spend time outside.

Looking for a mower? Come see us at our Eastman, GA, dealership location today to view our current stock of new and used lawn mowers for sale. Our friendly sales team can also offer you financing and credit options. Eastman Equipment Company proudly serves the cities of Warner Robins and Dublin, GA.