{"id":33717,"date":"2025-04-14T19:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/?p=33717"},"modified":"2025-04-14T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:43:35","slug":"when-does-grass-stop-growing-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/when-does-grass-stop-growing-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"When Does Grass Stop Growing in Tennessee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Tennessee, warm-season grasses stop growing by mid-October, and cool-season grasses halt growing by November.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing when your grass stops growing will help you decide when to stop mowing for the winter. But what causes grass to stop growing? We explain.<\/p>    <h2 id=\"when-grasses-stop-growing\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">When grasses stop growing<\/h2>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temperature is the main reason grasses stop growing. Grasses go dormant once the temperature becomes too cold for them. And the temperature threshold for dormancy differs between warm- and cool-season grasses:<\/p>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong>Warm-season grasses<\/strong>: below 50 to 55\u00b0F, which occurs in mid-October.<\/li>    <li><strong>Cool-season grasses<\/strong>: below 40 to 50\u00b0F, which occurs in November.<\/li> <\/ul>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is a breakdown of when each type of grass stops growing:<\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Grass<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Type of grass<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Temperature when it stops growing<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fine fescue<\/td><td>Cool-season grass<\/td><td>50\u00b0F&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tall fescue<\/td><td>Cool-season grass<\/td><td>50\u00b0F<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kentucky bluegrass<\/td><td>Cool-season grass<\/td><td>50\u00b0F<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Perennial ryegrass<\/td><td>Cool-season grass<\/td><td>40\u00b0F<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bermudagrass<\/td><td>Warm-season grass<\/td><td>50\u00b0F<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Centipedegrass<\/td><td>Warm-season grass<\/td><td>50\u00b0F<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Zoysiagrass<\/td><td>Warm-season grass<\/td><td>55\u00b0F<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>    <h2 id=\"frequently-asked-questions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>    <h3 id=\"when-does-grass-start-growing-in-spring\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">When does grass start growing in spring?<\/h3>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/guide-to-warm-season-grasses\/\">Warm-season grasses<\/a> grow when the temperature consistently reaches the 60s. <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/guide-to-cool-season-grasses\/\">Cool-season grasses<\/a> grow when the soil temperatures hit 40 to 45\u00b0F and the outside temperatures hit 65 to 75\u00b0F.<\/p>    <h3 id=\"how-does-grass-dormancy-affect-my-lawn-care-schedule\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does grass dormancy affect my lawn care schedule?<\/h3>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t give your lawn much attention when it isn\u2019t growing. Meaning,<\/p>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Wait to aerate your lawn until the grass starts growing again.<\/li>    <li>Don\u2019t fertilize your lawn until the growing season returns.<\/li>    <li>Dormant grass doesn\u2019t like heavy foot traffic, so keep off the lawn.<\/li>    <li>Put the lawn mower away &#8211; mowing a dormant lawn stresses it out.<\/li> <\/ul>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read our article, Month-to-Month Tennessee Lawn Care Schedule, to learn more about how grass dormancy affects your lawn care schedule.<\/p>    <h2 id=\"hire-a-professional\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hire a professional<\/h2>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calculating when your grass will stop growing can make your head spin, but you don\u2019t have to go crazy over it. Lawn Love is here to help &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/tennessee\">contact a pro<\/a> who will help you determine when your grass will stop growing and how you can prepare for winter dormancy.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iip-photo-archive\/42673438764\/in\/photolist-281UwCd-e1eT5z-ZiiKe8-dPN4Pe-2rAu2-9zrCW-825Qpy-22VwaLt-psKFYZ-dV2aNR-6nJyrQ-cu6qYy-hbs7aQ-21AQWJs-pCx3ri-oBL6uY-pZuVQR-oRKVrT-a98sid-dPMSsT-oms4mL-omE11z-fgfP5-9RuqJU-PVAiNf-c5HRC3-fgdHZ-9RrxaD-oFFcL-cEGjsd-eRFTRs-BAM5sW-BLnu3x-9RruTc-gdgHx-dZSCAX-MCenKB-9RusiW-qYrh62-UhZubh-2ZzAAZ-acrfGY-825Q4Y-7M4z5H-fmS3zn-fmS3we-pPPVT-a7DCU3-ojCKTb-9Ruqcb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GPA Photo Archive<\/a> | Flickr | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm-season grasses stop growing in mid-October and cool-season grasses stop growing in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":33734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[741],"class_list":["post-33717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennessee","tag-lawn-care-tn"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/42673438764_61a7c524aa_o-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Stuart Kushner","author_link":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/author\/stuart-kushner\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}