Dumfries, Scotland
Best weekend slot
Saturday 8am–8pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
Next mow
Saturday 8am–8pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
The next 10 days
Column height is how mowable the day is; the lighter band is the best stretch within it. The line is soil temperature at 6cm.
9°C — seeding
Soil at 6cm 15.1°C cooling to 11.8°C
Wednesday 2 September: Marginal. No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft37mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.78
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 3 September: Good. No — 0.7mm of rain falling.
Thursday 3 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.7mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft46mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.81
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light12 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 4 September: Good. No — ground soft, 61mm rain over the last week.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — ground soft, 61mm rain over the last week.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft61mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.68
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light18 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Saturday 5 September: Good. 8am–8pm — ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
Saturday 5 September · 8am–8pmConfident
8am–8pm — ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Friday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft58mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.58
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light11 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Not worth it. No — 1.9mm of rain falling.
Sunday 6 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 1.9mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated57mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.70
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light12 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Monday 7 September: Good. No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
Monday 7 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated57mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.51
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Not worth it. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dampraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated64mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.35
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — ground saturated, 66mm rain over the last week.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground saturated, 66mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated66mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.29
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. No — ground soft, 57mm rain over the last week.
Thursday 10 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — ground soft, 57mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft57mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Barely growinggrowth potential 0.16
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light5 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Good. 8am–8pm — ground soft — 41mm rain over the last week
Friday 11 September · 8am–8pmLow confidence this far out
8am–8pm — ground soft — 41mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft41mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.25
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Soil temperature
13.5°C56°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 13.5°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
Almost every UK and Irish lawn is a ryegrass and fescue mix, whether it was sown or turfed. We assume that, and use9°C as the seeding threshold.
I know what grass I have
The differences are small. Ryegrass is the quickest off the mark; bluegrass is the slowest and wants the warmest soil. Everything else sits between.
| Species | Soil temp | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Perennial ryegrasslikely yours | 8°C | 5–10 |
| Red / chewings fescuelikely yours | 8–10°C | 10–14 |
| Tall fescue | 10–12°C | 10–14 |
| Browntop bentColonial bentgrass | 10–12°C | 14–21 |
| Smooth-stalked meadow grassKentucky bluegrass | 12–13°C | 14–28 |
What this means right now
Forecast from Open-Meteo, refreshed hourly. Soil temperature is modelled, not measured — how that works and where the thresholds come from.