Keep Your Lawn Green and Your Mower Clean

Spring has finally sprung here in Ohio which means that it is time to mow the lawn. Recently, I busted out my new push mower, strapped on the ipod, and went to work. It was nice to be able to walk around and lis­ten to some tunes in the fresh spring air. There is noth­ing like the smell of fresh cut grass — although it makes my nose run for the rest of the day. Any­way fol­low­ing mow­ing the lawn, I typ­i­cally put the grass cov­ered mower in the garage, get out the blower, and clean up all of the grass clip­pings from the dri­ve­way, walk, and messy and it is just more work than I want to do after mow­ing. Finally, I had a great idea — use the blower to clean the mower. Now this is so basic that I have to imag­ine a lot of you read­ing this are already smart enough to use this short­cut. Still, the fact that I have never seen any­one do it tells me that I might be shar­ing some­thing of value. It is just this easy. Fin­ish mow­ing. Blow off the mower. Lift up the back of the mower. Blow off the under­neath of the mower. Blow the grass and debris into the yard. Done. Your mower will be clean, you lawn green, and you won’t have those annoy­ing clumps of grass all about your garage. I hope this tip is use­ful. Happy mowing.