Perth, Scotland
Mowing
When you can next cut it, and the best slot this weekend.
Best weekend slot
Saturday 8am–8pm
Verdict: Good
rain earlier today, ground firm
Next mow
Today midday–5pm
Verdict: Good
rain earlier today, ground firm
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 15.7°C cooling to 11.9°C
Thursday 3 September: Good. midday–5pm — rain earlier today, ground firm
Thursday 3 September · midday–5pmConfident
midday–5pm — rain earlier today, ground firm
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm14mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.68
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:none
Friday 4 September: Good. 9am–11am — dried off since a shower 1 hour ago, ground firm
Friday 4 September · 9am–11amConfident
9am–11am — dried off since a shower 1 hour ago, ground firm
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm16mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.61
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light20 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts once the rain has passed
Limiting factor:wind
Saturday 5 September: Good. 8am–8pm — rain earlier today, ground firm
Saturday 5 September · 8am–8pmConfident
8am–8pm — rain earlier today, ground firm
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm16mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.54
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light17 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:none
Sunday 6 September: Good. No — 0.3mm of rain falling.
Sunday 6 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.3mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm20mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.83
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature17°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Monday 7 September: Good. 2pm–8pm — dried off since a shower 1 hour ago, ground firm
Monday 7 September · 2pm–8pmReasonably confident
2pm–8pm — dried off since a shower 1 hour ago, ground firm
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 0 hours ago
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm22mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.48
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the rain has passed
Limiting factor:none
Tuesday 8 September: Good. 9am–2pm — grass dry — rain earlier today
Tuesday 8 September · 9am–2pmReasonably confident
9am–2pm — grass dry — rain earlier today
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm23mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.27
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light3 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. 8am–8pm — growing slowly — growth potential 0.22
Wednesday 9 September · 8am–8pmReasonably confident
8am–8pm — growing slowly — growth potential 0.22
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm24mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.22
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light9 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:growth
Thursday 10 September: Good. 11am–8pm — grass dry — no rain since Tuesday
Thursday 10 September · 11am–8pmReasonably confident
11am–8pm — grass dry — no rain since Tuesday
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Tuesday
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm18mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Barely growinggrowth potential 0.15
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light2 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Friday 11 September: Good. 7pm–8pm — grass damp — rain earlier today
Friday 11 September · 7pm–8pmLow confidence this far out
7pm–8pm — grass damp — rain earlier today
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass damprain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm16mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.20
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light5 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Saturday 12 September: Good. midday–8pm — grass dry — rain earlier today
Saturday 12 September · midday–8pmLow confidence this far out
midday–8pm — grass dry — rain earlier today
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Good:Ground firmness
- Ground firm18mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Growth
- Barely growinggrowth potential 0.19
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light4 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Growth
How fast it is growing, and when it will need cutting again.
0.68Growing strongly
Growth potential, 0 to 1 — the turf-industry measure of how fast grass can grow at today's temperature and day length.
Putting on about 4.1mm a day. A lawn cut today would be ready for another in around 4 days.
Worked out from the PACE Turf growth potential model and day length —how and why.
What this means right now
Seeding
Soil temperature at germination depth, and when the window opens.
Soil temperature
13.3°C56°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 10 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 13.3°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
Cross-checks against an independent estimate from air temperature (14.5°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 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 |
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 growing well enough to use 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.
Perth, Scotland in detail
Soil temperature at 6cm in Perth, Scotland is currently 13.3°C, and falling about 4.3°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. Seeding conditions are open — soil is 13.3°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
10 of the next 10 days are good mowing days. The best weekend slot right now is Saturday 8am–8pm, on the basis that rain earlier today, ground firm.
The next recommended window in Perth opens at midday on Thursday 3 September, 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 14mm rain over the last week.
There is frost in the forecast for Perth, Scotland: Thursday 10 September has hours cold enough to freeze the leaf. Stay off the grass until it lifts — mowing frosted turf ruptures the cells and the damage shows for weeks.
Forecast from Open-Meteo, refreshed hourly. Soil temperature is modelled, not measured — how that works and where the thresholds come from.