Hello! Paragraph of background, next paragraph has the problem. City boy here 😅 I visit my mother the next state over and have taken over law duties. When her and my father moved to this suburban house 20 years ago, he maintained it with a beautiful Husqvarna riding mower, total overkill for the yard, was his zen place and he loved it so we always let him be. Since he passed, my mom had lawn service but you know, everything is going up in price so we decided to do it ourselves with the occasional truegreen seeding and aeration. It’s not that I haven’t cut a lawn before, but I’m usually using other people’s equipment, on their schedule, with their suggestions. We found that the ego power mowers would do well for her size yard so long as we got that bonus battery deal Lowe’s had, and would frustrate us less over the years with maintenance (say my sister or nephew took over for a week or two, less troubleshooting in terms of oil, filters, spark plugs the better).
First cut of the season we bagged, and now we are mulching. We’ve been trying to learn where we need to overlap the mower lines, seems to not exactly be the wheel like previous mowers I used. Even moving pretty far in, I always seem to have some longer blades intermittently, in a long line where I have mowed. My theory is: the grass is getting pushed down by the wheel and not getting sucked back up by the blades fast enough to be cut, exasperated by the more intermittent weekly cutting that our schedule allows vs ever 5 days or so (northwest Ohio weather). If that theory holds, what is the solution? Use the high lift blade? Cut shorter when I can (don’t want to kill the grass going too short, we’ve had a lot of rain but also have had some dry summers here and there), something else completely?
Any suggestions or pointing to online resources would be helpful! Cheers!