As a lawn care company, when grass blades are green and plentiful, our customers sure are happy! And when our customers are happy, everyone is happy. But, there’s got to be more to the story of a grass blade than just looking healthy and strong, isn’t there? Actually, there is… and it’s kind of a big deal to the baby grass blades that are attempting to propagate.
Outside of their ability to make our properties look so good, grass blades serve one big purpose: to produce photosynthesis. We’ve all learned and heard this word in our science books, but how can we visualize this through simpler terms? Well, a grass plant needs minerals, water, and carbon dioxide. Both the plant’s roots and leaves use teamwork to take in each of these three substances. [**Something to Note**: Applying well-balanced fertilizers to provide the right minerals make a huge difference!] Then, just as the skin on each of our human bodies have different color pigments, a plant has something called chlorophyll to give it that green-colored pigment. When the grass plant’s chlorophyll (green-colored pigment) mixes with the mineral, water and carbon dioxide substances that it took in through its plant teamwork and are combined with sunlight, the sunlight turns everything into a sugar energy that feeds the rest of the plant and satisfies its appetite. This is the short version of photosynthesis, and it is the biggest purpose grass blades serve outside of their good looks.
When grass gets cut too short or gets scalped by a lawn mower, the blades of the grass that were storing all these nutrients/sugar energy for the rest of the plant get taken away, and now they must all be replaced. As we all know, though, grass can grow quickly, so it has no problem re-growing blades… as long as 2-3 inches of the blades that contain this hard-worked-for sugar energy stays intact. When blades get cut shorter than that, the grass plant has to start the tedious and time-consuming process of photosynthesis from scratch, which can make it that much harder for you to maintain a healthy lawn.
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