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[quote=Anonymous]The anti-grass zealots are a bit extreme.  We have a farm with 50 acres of fields that get cut once or twice a year.  We have trails through the fields that get mowed several times a year.

1.  You pretty much have to have a maintained “grassy” area if you want an area that kids can play on.  That doesn’t mean you need to aerate and overseed all the time or ensure there’s not a single dandelion.  The “lawn” part of our property is mostly weeds and grasses that get cut every other week.  By this time of the year it’s mostly grass and clover.

2.  Frequent mowing is important to control invasives.  Because of mismanagement by a tenant farmer, we will probably need to do a controlled burn or a deep till one day to eliminate Russian olive, Japanese stiltgrass, johnson grass and so many others.

3.  Maintaining wildflower and grass meadows is really a lot of work.  It’s glamorized on instagram but we maybe have a half acre of this and we pay someone to work on it for a lot of hours.

The path of least resistance is to mow.  And, for 80-100 bucks a cut for a half acre lot (for our other house), for me it’s time spent because I can spend that time doing some other task that would be more costly to hire out.

As for the question at hand, you just let it dry out.  By Saturday afternoon unless you have drainage problems in your lawn, it should be firm enough for a riding lawnmower.  Depending on how much rain you get today or tomorrow, you should be able to use a push mower by tomorrow afternoon.  The big thing is just avoid morning dew because as others have said wet grass clogs the mower.[/quote]

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