Mowing lawns is the “bread-and-butter” of most lawn care professionals. However, scheduling is a big part of how yards are kept on track for completion each week. 

There are typically two ways you can categorize your customer’s mowing schedule, either weekly or bi-weekly.

Regrettably, bi-weekly mowing may be harmful to the lawn. Failure to mow correctly, including on-time, can negatively influence the health and performance of your customer’s yard.

Even if your customer thinks they can cope with their grass being a bit higher, mowing every two weeks rather than weekly isn’t good for their lawn’s overall health. It also has a significant impact on scheduling.  

As a lawn care professional, you know you should try to design routes to be the most efficient as possible each week. 

So, adding a “bi-weekly” mowing into the mix may not be that huge of a factor. Still, when you add several of these into the schedule, it affects everything from employee’s workload to how much money and time you are spending on gas and driving from one location to the next. 

Bi-weekly mowing is an alternative that you may offer to be flexible with your customer’s preferences, especially if you are starting as a solo operator. However, if you want to give your client the healthiest and best-looking lawn, plus make your scheduling more efficient, weekly mowing is the ideal option.

Why is Weekly Mowing the Optimal Choice?

You understand grass as a lawn care service provider, and you know that mowing your clients’ lawns once a week may provide them a green, healthy lawn. Therefore, you probably schedule and return to your customer’s yard on the same day every week. For average-growing grass, your clients also probably prefer weekly mowing and find that it is the most feasible and a cost-effective way of lawn management.

Also, another primary reason that weekly mowing is a good idea is that it is less stressful on the lawn’s health. Various grass species make up your customers’ lawns and mowing them irregularly or bi-weekly might stress the different types of grass that make up the lawn, just like any other plant.

On the other hand, mowing more often is far less stressful on the grass than waiting for more than a week between mows and then making a severe cut. That is because you are cutting a tiny portion of the grass height at a time.

To make the cut as painless as possible, cut no more than one-third of the way from the grass blade’s tip. Sometimes when you trim more than that, your client’s grass will most likely turn yellow as it tries to cope with the stress.

Weekly mowing helps workers adhere to the one-third rule, which states that each mowing should only remove one-third of the grass blades.

Cutting the grass by more than a third might cause it to become stressed and more vulnerable to typical turf issues.

Mowing grass frequently and at a little taller height allows grass roots to grow deeper, which helps your client’s lawn endure droughts and dryer soil.

Should Mowing Bi-weekly Be An Option?

You might ask why would bi-weekly mowing even be an option if weekly mowing is the best practice?

Some of your clients may be on a limited budget and prefer bi-weekly mowing due to their financial situation. However, it is worth noting that weekly mowing saves you money when you break down the price per service. So, you may want to pass that information on to your customers that while the amount of services costs may seem lower, they are paying more in the end. Plus, their lawn does not get the benefits as it would with a weekly mowing.

Many of your customers may not realize that bi-weekly mowing could be harmful to their lawn. This mowing schedule can frequently result in brown grass standing past its prime. Also, because of the drastic cut, bi-weekly mowing can shock and permanently harm the grass, notably St. Augustine. 

Now, suppose your bi-weekly mowing customers invest in your other lawn care services that you provide, such as fertilization. In that case, it’s even more vital that you promote to your clients to keep up with a weekly mowing since their lawn will be significantly affected. 

Investing in lawn care will assist and improve the general health of your customer’s lawn. However, it will not be as effective by failing to mow regularly and could even be detrimental to your customer’s yard. In many respects, bad mowing practices ruin a lawn care program’s hard work and accomplishments.

One side note here, when the weather changes and temperatures drop, you may only need to mow your customers’ lawn once a month. Also, because grass growth slows down in the fall, this will suggest when to cease mowing the property for that season.

As you are probably aware, maintaining a lush, brilliant lawn requires keeping the grass cut at an optimum height without removing too much. So, you must mow lawns weekly to achieve this. In addition, the “height” of the grass will fluctuate throughout the year since grass grows differently depending on the season. So, while it is feasible to maintain bi-weekly customers who prefer that, you can share these other “lawn care” factors that may persuade them to turn into weekly mowing customers.