Grass cutting in Charlwood

Striped, edged lawns for Charlwood homes, cut on the right day for the clay.

Grass cutting in Charlwood is slower to get going than people expect. The parish sits on Wealden Clay, and after a wet winter the ground can stay soft into April, long after the grass has woken up. We’re two and a half miles away in Horley, so we can wait for a dry spell and be there the day it arrives, not a fortnight later.

Plenty of lawns here belong to detached houses on the lanes, and some are a fair size. We cut them with rear-roller Hayter mowers for proper stripes, edge every visit and take all the clippings away. If you’ve been searching for lawn mowing services near me from the Charlwood end of RH6, that’s what you’d get.

A big lawn under the trees, cut and striped

Grass cutting in Charlwood, on the clay and on the ridge

Most of the village is flat clay, but the parish isn’t all the same. A ridge of Paludina limestone, the local Sussex marble, lifts Norwood Hill, Stan Hill and Russ Hill above the land around them. Lawns down on the low clay sit wetter for longer and want a higher cut in spring. Up on the higher ground, some dry out sooner in a hot spell. So we don’t run one setting across the whole round. We look at each lawn, raise the height when it’s dry, and never take more than a third off in one go.

What a residential lawn mowing service looks like here

A typical Charlwood visit runs like this. We check the ground first, because a soaked clay lawn compacts under a mower and tears rather than cuts. If it’s fine, we mow, strim round trees and posts, cut the edges back to a clean line and load every clipping into the van. Weekly suits most lawns through May and June. Fortnightly is enough either side of that. And where a lawn runs down to a field edge or a ditch, we keep the mower off the soft margin until it’s firm enough to take the weight.

Lawn Mowing in Charlwood: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

How much does grass cutting cost in Charlwood?

There’s no single rate, because lawns here vary so much in size. It depends on the area, how easy it is to get the mower in and how often you want us. Regular cuts are better value per visit than one-offs, and we’ll give you a fixed price after a look.

My lawn’s still squelchy in April. Should it be cut?

Not yet. Mowing waterlogged clay squashes the soil and sets you up for moss next year. We’ll wait until it’s firm underfoot, then do a high first cut that just takes the tips off.

Can you take on a big lawn that’s been left all summer?

Yes. We’ll bring it down in stages over a visit or two rather than scalping it, which would shock the grass. Then we’ll put it on a regular round so it doesn’t get away again.