PE16, Fenland
Mowing
When you can next cut it, and the best slot this weekend.
Current conditions · 9pm, this hour
Not now — it’s dark
- Grass
- soaked
- Ground
- firm
- Rain
- —
- Temp
- 11°
- Wind
- 8 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 0.06).
Wednesday afternoon is your first decent window.
Next mow
Wednesday 3pm–5pm
Verdict: Prime time
grass slightly damp — rain earlier that day
The next 10 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.
Monday 19 October: no hours worth using. No — grass wet, rain earlier today.
Monday 19 October, hour by hour 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am midday 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm Chance — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Verdict Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Already gone Rainchance · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Rainmm · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Grass · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Ground · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Temp · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Windkm/h · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Daylight · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 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.
Monday 19 OctoberConfident
No — grass wet, rain earlier today.
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Tuesday 20 October: no hours worth using. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
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Growth: growing slowly (growth potential 0.22). 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 20 OctoberConfident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 21 October: 2 hours worth using. 3pm–5pm — grass slightly damp — rain earlier that day
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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.
Wednesday 21 October · 3pm–5pmConfident
3pm–5pm — grass slightly damp — rain earlier that day
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 22 October: nothing to cut. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.06). Conditions themselves are fine.
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.06). 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 0.06). Conditions themselves are fine.
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: nothing to cut. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.08).
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.08). Not enough to be worth cutting, which is why no hour is recommended today whatever the weather does.
Friday 23 OctoberReasonably confident
Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.08).
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
Saturday 24 October: nothing to cut. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.06).
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Growth: barely growing (growth potential 0.06). Not enough to be worth cutting, which is why no hour is recommended today whatever the weather does.
Saturday 24 OctoberReasonably confident
Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.06).
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 — 0.1mm of rain falling.
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Growth: growing slowly (growth potential 0.28). 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 — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Monday 26 October: nothing to cut. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.07). Conditions themselves are fine.
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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.
Monday 26 OctoberReasonably confident
Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.07). Conditions themselves are fine.
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
Tuesday 27 October: 3 hours worth using. 2pm–5pm — grass slightly damp — dry again 4 hours after a shower
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Growth: growing slowly (growth potential 0.30). 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 · 2pm–5pmLow confidence this far out
2pm–5pm — grass slightly damp — dry again 4 hours after a shower
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 28 October: 5 hours worth using. 8am–1pm — ground soft in places — 42mm rain over the last week, organic (peat) 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.
Wednesday 28 October · 8am–1pmLow confidence this far out
8am–1pm — ground soft in places — 42mm rain over the last week, organic (peat) 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.
20%Growing slowly
Of the fastest this grass could grow. The turf-industry measure, from today's temperature and day length.
Growing slowly — roughly 0.7mm a day. It will not put on enough to need cutting within the next 10 days.
Held back by both temperature and short days — 10.4 hours of daylight at 12°C.
- Over the next 10 days
- about 6mm 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 PE16, Fenland
12.9°C55°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Soil is warming — it should cross 9°C in about 8 days, though the forecast doesn't run far enough to confirm it holds.
Cooling over the next 10 days.
Cross-checks against an independent estimate from air temperature (11.2°C), which agrees to within 0.8°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.
PE16, Fenland in detail
Soil temperature in PE16, Fenland is currently 12.9°C at 6cm, and falling about 0.7°C over the next 10 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. Soil is warming — it should cross 9°C in about 8 days, though the forecast doesn't run far enough to confirm it holds.
3 of the next 10 days look workable. As for the weekend: nothing doing. Nothing to cut — the grass is barely growing (growth potential 0.06).
The next recommended window in PE16 opens at 3pm on Wednesday 21 October, because that is when the dew has burnt off — earlier than that and you are cutting wet grass. Underfoot, the ground reads as firm after 10mm rain over the last week, organic (peat) 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.