Falkirk, Scotland
Best weekend slot
Nothing doing
Verdict: Not worth it
ground waterlogged. And nothing else in the next 10 days either.
Next mow
Not in the next 10 days
Verdict: Not worth it
0.7mm of rain falling.
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 13.7°C cooling to 11.5°C
Wednesday 2 September: Not worth it. No — 0.7mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.7mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places20mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.49
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light2 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 3 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Thursday 3 SeptemberConfident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft29mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.74
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Friday 4 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places35mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.67
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light15 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Saturday 5 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Saturday 5 SeptemberConfident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places33mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.60
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light12 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Not worth it. No — 1.1mm of rain falling.
Sunday 6 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 1.1mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated33mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.65
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light11 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Monday 7 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Monday 7 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 0 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated53mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.50
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light17 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 drydried off since a shower 0 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated58mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.28
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light15 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 9 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft54mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.25
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Thursday 10 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — ground waterlogged.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Tuesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft45mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.21
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Friday 11 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — ground waterlogged.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Tuesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft39mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.22
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light4 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Soil temperature
12.8°C55°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 12.8°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.