Less lawn growth, less work for you.

If you wait until your lawn is this tall, mulching will not work. If you use a lawn company to fertilize your lawn, they will try and make it grow tall fast to keep it green, but this means a lot more work for you. You need to take over your own fertilizer if you want a green lawn that is easy to maintain.

This really isn't that tough but it does add a step to the process. You'll make up for it enough savings to buy more Kool-Aid while laying in the hammock so it's worth it. Buy a cheap little broadcast fertilizer spreader. Buy some Slow Release fertilizer. Now only use 20% of what they recommend but put it down every time you mow. Get the spreader that you can keep it from spreading over onto the sidewalk or get good enough with it so you can control that. What you are now doing is giving the lawn a little bit of fertilizer, just enough to keep green but not so much that it shoots up too tall to mow without a bag. This little trick is easier than you think because if you kind of blow it one week, you'll fix it the next week because you are never using so much fertilizer that you can burn the lawn and you won't stripe the lawn. Now that you have less growth each week, the clippings are going into the lawn and actually adding some organic fertilizer too which helps to balance the lawns health. These are simple steps but they really make yard care easier. If you have that big 20 thousand square feet, you better have a riding mower, and with that riding mower you can attach the fertilizer cart to the back and simply pull it around. Every time you fertilize you'll change the directions you use so the lawn gets and even balance.