NG34, North Kesteven
Mowing
When you can next cut it, and the best slot this weekend.
Current conditions · midnight, this hour
Not now — it’s dark
- Grass
- soaked
- Ground
- soft
- Rain
- —
- Temp
- 11°
- Wind
- 9 km/h
Forecast for this hour, not a measurement.
Best weekend slot
Nothing doing
Verdict: Not worth it
Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.10).
Monday morning is your first decent window.
Next mow
Monday 8am–5pm
Verdict: Prime time
ground soft — 54mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
Forecast notices · next 3 days
- Worth watching: Ground too soft. Tomorrow: 41mm of rain over the past week has left the ground too soft to mow. A mower will mark it, and a ride-on will rut it. More
The next 9 days
Each row is a day, morning on the left. The more solid a block, the more of the forecast runs agree you can mow. Open a day for the hour-by-hour forecast behind it.
Wednesday 21 October: no hours worth using. No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 21 October, hour by hour 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am midday 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm Chance — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Verdict dark dark dark Forget it Forget it 0.2mm of rain falling 0.3mm of rain falling 0.5mm of rain falling 0.5mm of rain falling 1.4mm of rain falling 0.7mm of rain falling 0.6mm of rain falling 0.7mm of rain falling dark dark dark Rainchance — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Rainmm — — — — — 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.5 1.4 0.7 0.6 0.7 5.1 5.1 4.7 Grass soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked soaked Ground soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soft soggy soggy sodden Temp 9° 9° 8° 8° 9° 10° 11° 11° 11° 12° 12° 12° 10° 9° 8° 8° Windkm/h 9 9 9 9 9 8 10 12 8 8 2 11 35 38 34 31 Daylight — — — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — — — Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.10). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Wednesday 21 OctoberConfident
No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 22 October: nothing to cut. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.07).
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.07). Not enough to be worth cutting, which is why no hour is recommended today whatever the weather does.
Thursday 22 OctoberConfident
Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.07).
Nothing to cut. The odds below describe the weather only — growth decides whether a cut is wanted, and it is judged separately.
Limiting factor:growth
Friday 23 October: no hours worth using. No — 0.3mm of rain falling.
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.13). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Friday 23 OctoberConfident
No — 0.3mm of rain falling.
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Saturday 24 October: nothing to cut. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.10).
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.10). Not enough to be worth cutting, which is why no hour is recommended today whatever the weather does.
Saturday 24 OctoberConfident
Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.10).
Nothing to cut. The odds below describe the weather only — growth decides whether a cut is wanted, and it is judged separately.
Limiting factor:growth
Sunday 25 October: no hours worth using. No — ground saturated, 58mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil.
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.11). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Sunday 25 OctoberReasonably confident
No — ground saturated, 58mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil.
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Monday 26 October: 9 hours worth using. 8am–5pm — ground soft — 54mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.10). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Monday 26 October · 8am–5pmReasonably confident
8am–5pm — ground soft — 54mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 27 October: 4 hours worth using. 1pm–5pm — ground soft in places — 48mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
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Growth: growing slowly (growth potential 0.20). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Tuesday 27 October · 1pm–5pmReasonably confident
1pm–5pm — ground soft in places — 48mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Wednesday 28 October: 5 hours worth using. 8am–1pm — ground soft in places — 45mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
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Growth: growing slowly (growth potential 0.21). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Wednesday 28 October · 8am–1pmReasonably confident
8am–1pm — ground soft in places — 45mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 29 October: 9 hours worth using. 8am–5pm — ground soft in places — 24mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.18). Enough to be worth cutting. Growth decides whether a cut is wanted, not how well it will go, so it is not one of the rows above and does not move the chances.
Thursday 29 October · 8am–5pmLow confidence this far out
8am–5pm — ground soft in places — 24mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil
Limiting factor:ground firmness
good to go touch and go dark, frost or snow already goneFainter means fewer forecast runs agree.
Growth
How fast it is growing, and when it will need cutting again.
10%Barely growing
Of the fastest this grass could grow. The turf-industry measure, from today's temperature and day length.
The lawn is barely growing, so it does not need cutting. Leave it — taking leaf off a sward that cannot replace it costs more than it gives.
Held back by both temperature and short days — 10.2 hours of daylight at 10°C.
- Over the next 9 days
- about 4mm of leaf
- Next cut due
- not within the next ten days
This only knows temperature and day length. Feeding, watering, shade and cutting height all move it, so treat it as a rough guide.
Worked out from the PACE Turf growth potential model and day length —how and why.
Seeding
Soil temperature at germination depth, and when the window opens.
Soil temperature in NG34, North Kesteven
11.1°C52°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 11.1°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
Warming over the next 9 days.
Cross-checks against an independent estimate from air temperature (10.8°C), which agrees to within 0.5°C.
Almost every UK and Irish lawn is a ryegrass and fescue mix, whether it was sown or turfed. We assume that, and use 9°C as the seeding threshold.
Thresholds for every species
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 needed | Days to sprout |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Feeding
Why timing decides whether a feed does anything at all.
Coming in the app
Grass takes up nitrogen when it is growing. Feed a lawn that has stopped and most of it washes past the roots — which is why timing beats product choice.
Right now this lawn is not growing fast enough to make much use of a feed.
The app will work out the actual feeding windows for your lawn — along with weed control, scarifying and moss treatment — and tell you when they open without you having to check.
NG34, North Kesteven in detail
Soil temperature in NG34, North Kesteven is currently 11.1°C at 6cm, and rising about 1.9°C over the next 9 days. That depth matters because it is where grass seed sits and where roots start working, and it lags air temperature by days — which is why a warm afternoon here tells you very little on its own.
Lawns in this area are typically perennial ryegrass with fescue, which is what most lawns round here are sown with. That blend needs the soil to hold above 9°C before seed germinates reliably. Seeding conditions are open — soil is 11.1°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
5 of the next 9 days look workable. As for the weekend: nothing doing. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.10).
The next recommended window in NG34 opens at 8am on Monday 26 October, because anything earlier is the hour your neighbours will remember. Underfoot, the ground reads as soft in places after 20mm rain over the last week, fine (clay) soil.
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Single-model forecast here — no ensemble covers this location, so there are no odds to show. Forecast from Open-Meteo, refreshed through the day. Soil temperature is modelled, not measured — how that works and where the thresholds come from.