Rain Keeps Lawn Crews Busy Across Tulsa

We've seen 5 additional inches of rain over the last three months compared to this time last year.

Monday, August 12th 2013, 12:06 am

By: News On 6


Experts say the hot weather and heavy rainfall is perfect for the Bermuda grass on our lawns.

Green Country is green again, and many people seem to be mowing all the time, which hasn't been the case in August over the past few years.

Some people said they can barely keep up.

Straight lines, horizontal lines, it doesn't matter how you do it.

"Get it cut, get it groomed up and make it look pretty," Mark Gleghorn said.

Gleghorn is cutting his son's lawn in Tulsa, and said after he leaves he'll high tail it to Owasso and start on his own yard. But you won't hear him complaining.

Gleghorn estimates his lawn is growing 4 to 5 inches a week.

"The rains have been a huge blessing for us," Lawn Sheriff GM Darrin Deshazer said.

Deshazer's five crews have had their hands full.

That's because we've seen 5 additional inches of rain over the last three months compared to this time last year.

"We were may be only mowing maybe a 100 lawns a week [usually]," he said. "This year, we're well over 350 lawns a week."

Deshazer said his company burn though $1500-2000 per week in gas alone, because people are ditching their riding and push mowers for the Lawn Sheriff's zero turn radius and stand up mowers.

"It just produces a higher quality cut, and the other advantage is they don't' have to mess with it," he said.

In Tulsa, weeds and grass can't be more than a foot tall, and if the city receives a complaint about your grass, it will send somebody out to measure it and inspect it. At that point, you'll have 10 days to mow it yourself. If you don't, the city will do it for you and you'll be left covering the bill plus a fine.

Nathan Pierce helps keep people's lawns in check by mowing grass as a side job.

"More than I can handle sometimes, it gets real hectic sometimes I can't even do my own," Pierce said.

Pierce suggests you stay on a constant cutting cycle - and cut once every 4 or 5 days to keep your yard its best.

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