Can You Mow Wet Grass?
Risk of Electric Shock
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Electricity and water don’t mix.
It’s best to avoid using any electric mower when it’s damp out.
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This can result in your lawn mower smoking because the engine is being overworked.
Fungal Diseases Spread
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Fungal diseases such asbrown patchthrive under wet conditions.
That’s one reason why mowing wet grass is detrimental to lawn health.
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The result will be wheel ruts.
You will have torake those grass clumps, meaning more work for you.
You don’t get this when the grass is wet.
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The moisture sitting on the blades weighs them down.
Your mower blade will spin right over many of the depressed blades.
Once drying occurs, these uncut blades spring back up, looking like cowlicks.
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The wet clumps of grass produced get all over everything.
Here are a few tricks to use to make the best of a bad situation.
Wait until they’re standing up again.
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The dew will have evaporated by then.
The best way to tell when it’s time to mow is to feel the grass.
If it’s wet to the touch, then it’s too soon to mow.
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