Liverpool, England
Best weekend slot
Sunday midday–2pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft — 62mm rain over the last week
Next mow
Tomorrow 8am–5pm
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 16.8°C cooling to 14.4°C
Wednesday 2 September: Marginal. No — 1.1mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 1.1mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places38mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.89
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light11 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 3 September: Good. 8am–5pm — ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
Thursday 3 September · 8am–5pmConfident
8am–5pm — ground soft — 58mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft58mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.97
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature18°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light19 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 4 September: Good. No — 1.2mm of rain falling.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — 1.2mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 3 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated53mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.84
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature17°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light19 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Saturday 5 September: Good. No — ground soft, 69mm rain over the last week.
Saturday 5 SeptemberConfident
No — ground soft, 69mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft69mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.79
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light13 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Good. midday–2pm — ground soft — 62mm rain over the last week
Sunday 6 September · midday–2pmReasonably confident
midday–2pm — ground soft — 62mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft62mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.95
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature16°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light17 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Monday 7 September: Good. 8am–2pm — ground soft — 56mm rain over the last week
Monday 7 September · 8am–2pmReasonably confident
8am–2pm — ground soft — 56mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft56mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.77
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Good. No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft60mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.76
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light20 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — 2.9mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 2.9mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 5 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated76mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.49
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light20 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Thursday 10 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated73mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.49
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light6 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Good. No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
Friday 11 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated65mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.53
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light9 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Soil temperature
15.3°C60°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 15.3°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.