I gotta agree with this. I'll keep working on my garden and still cut my grass. I don't need to be wading through ticks and shit just to get to my car.
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No Mow May - gardeners encouraged not to cut lawns in May
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I gotta agree with this. I'll keep working on my garden and still cut my grass. I don't need to be wading through ticks and shit just to get to my car.
What I mean is that you're not going to introduce ticks by not mowing. You've either already got them in your area or you don't. Mowing won't eradicate the population. If you're not actively using your yard for anything besides mowing, then your highest chance of exposure is from mowing.
It's a different story if you're using your yard, like if you've got kids playing in it or whatever. Yet, even then, the idea of not mowing is not necessarily to let grass grow up several feet, but that we should encourage different things to grow, including low height, low maintenance plants like clover which are perfect for playing in.
Between my age and my muscular dystrophy, it's getting to where I can't mow the lawn anymore. I tried a few weeks ago and after about ten minutes I had to tap out because I was already exhausted and my muscles were starting to seize up. I'm not about to pay someone to mow it for me, either. Not with how fast and dense the crap in the back yard grows (it's all bahia grass in the summer once I mow down the "weeds" that grow up during the winter). I want to tear up my back yard and plant some clovers and other flowers, maybe even put a vegetable garden in one corner of it. Anything to make it to where I don't have to mow anymore. The most I want to have to do is pull up the occasional Carolina cherry, which tend to proliferate right on the fence line.
Even when I was younger and better able to move around, I hated mowing. It's exhausting and tedious. It's also carries with it significant environmental cost but no real practical benefit.
Even when I was younger and better able to move around, I hated mowing. It's exhausting and tedious. It's also carries with it significant environmental cost but no real practical benefit.
Unrelated to the month, but does anyone get annoyed by neighbors who, while they do mow their lawn, fail to do anything related to edging? Sure, the lawn is flat, but there is just wild growth overtaking the sidewalks and curbs, and random stuff just hanging a foot into the air everywhere on the sides.
I'd totally do this if my dad wasn't extremely persnickety about my lawn when he stops by.
Not to mention I've heard that the longer the grass is when you mow it, the faster it grows back.
Not to mention I've heard that the longer the grass is when you mow it, the faster it grows back.
Yeah my neighbor doesn't do shit and his yard is a mess with a huge section filled with dandelions. I usually use my fiskars claw tool to pull out dandelions from root, works great, but it's a forever battle.
My nephew is allergic to bees so I try to keep shit like that and clover out.
So possibly, it depends. The less you mow the grass, the less stressed it is, but if you constantly mow really high, you'll contribute to thatch build up unless you're bagging your clippings. There's also the rule of only cut 1/3 length at a time.
The last time I protested mowing my grass, I got a threatening letter in the mail from the city, with a due date and a daily fine if I don't meet it.
When I have some land I definitely intend to let it grow out and have local plantlife and flowers overtake it.
The perfectly trimmed suburban yard is just not for me and I don't think it looks all that nice. I prefer a more natural look, and to help with local polinators of course.
The perfectly trimmed suburban yard is just not for me and I don't think it looks all that nice. I prefer a more natural look, and to help with local polinators of course.
FOr people that like to let nature take it course. Whats the best course for tackling Ivy? I'd love nature plants to go wild a bit in our upper yard...but the Ivy is just choking it all out.
Coincidentally our landscapers stopped cutting our grass a few weeks ago without giving us the heads up so we have nearly a months growth out there. Getting rough, have to find a new guy asap or be forced to break out our old electric mower. The horror.
Yeah that's pretty much what I DON'T do, lol. I typically go 2 weeks between mowing unless it's growing quite fast or there's been some rainstorms. Unfortunately having a new baby makes it very difficult to find the time.
Ive also heard that mowing later in the day when the sun is setting is better.
Honestly my lawn is pretty ugly (lots of crab grass patches, weeds, and bare spots) but my neighbors don't seem to give a shit and we don't have an HOA so I figure I'm okay doing the bare minimum.
Need to go out and trim the hedges though. Those are getting a little gnarly.
Our front yard is shaping up nicely this year.
That looks lovely, although what the heck with with that busted looking metal bar in the front?
Wish my lawn looked like that when I let it go, I just get crazy ass weeds that shoot 5x the height of the grass.
I find it interesting to see people talking about getting snakes and whatnot in your garden. This is a UK paper talking about a recommendation by a UK charity to UK readers. Our only venomous snake is the Adder, and they are so shy that I've never even seen one. I'd actually kinda want to! They are a protected species, their bite isn't any worse than a bee sting.
www.wildlifetrusts.org
If there was a good chance of getting rattlers and whatnot though, I'd be a lot more cautious.
Adder | The Wildlife Trusts
Our only venomous snake, the shy adder can be spotted basking in the sunshine in woodland glades and on heathlands.
www.wildlifetrusts.org
If there was a good chance of getting rattlers and whatnot though, I'd be a lot more cautious.
For some reason the mailman/mailwomen think can just walz straight through the flowers to the front door. The metal bars are to dissuade them of that notion, we also plan on painting them before too long.
Oh god..that would be so annoying lol, thankfully my mailperson just breaks my mailboxes or refuses to deliver anything that wont fit in the box so I don't have to worry about that atleast XD
This is what I do. Do a half assed trim about once a month, don't edge because it's too much work. I prefer an overgrown look. I actually get a little annoyed by my neighbor right next to me who has a perfect lawn, rotates the direction he mows every time, and is constantly mowing.
Nice, see you've got a lawn DESIGNED not to be mowed. If my grass gets out of control it'll be Smurf Village for rats.Our front yard is shaping up nicely this year.
I think that's one thing people don't realize. This isn't just not mowing your lawn. Going with a natural lawnscape requires a lot of work and a different type of maintenance.
You can make something locally friendly and sustainable without letting it go to hell, but like...it ain't my property, and as long as it ain't causing any problems other than an eyesore it ain't my business.
I also try to take the roots if possible, but I'm satisfied as long as I get the flower. I always feel like a cool bastard when I pluck a head that's just ready to spread the seeds. *Gotcha!*
I actually try to get rid of the clover also. There is always a massive outbreak near my lounging area.
Now about that moss in the lawn…
I held out until my daughters birthday party this past weekend. Rabbit took advantage of the tall grass in the backyard to burrow into the ground, so I had to fill it in after I mowed it so we wouldn't break our ankles. Probably won't be doing this again while I use a reel mower. Hell of a workout though.
In my village if we tried this, they'd send someone to mow it and bill you.
So about...20% or so of the houses in our area participated in this. We did not. More power to those who did, but it would drive me absolutely insane having our yard look like that.
I definitely don't spend as much time on my front yard as someone mowing every other week.
The images trying to guilt trip by saying I'm depriving bugs of a place to live by having a mowed lawn is confusing. That's the goal. I don't want them bugs living anywhere near my house.
The issue is there really isn't a place for them to go at this point, causing mass extinction
You've been culturally lead to believe that lawns should only look a certain way. These are not ugly lawns
Is this NIMBY but for protecting bees and other insects?
Yes, cutting your lawn is absolutely 100% a statement about hating bees. About as much as not having a lawn is also a statement about hating bees…
Ticks, field mice, other pests. But I totally support people's choice to do so. Everyone's area is different. I just don't think it's a statement of morality for those of us that prefer traditional lawn care/maintenance.
…I literally said more power to people who participated/prefer their lawns to look that way. I personally prefer a neat yard as clutter stresses me out. I wasn't tricked by Big Lawn into this.
I'd assume it's good to evaluate your good, valuable weeds and your bad, water-sucking weeds, and then get pulling the bad ones.
Sure but there are other bugs which are deprived of a safe environment other than the ticks. Bugs which aid in pollination, a system which seems to be beginning to collapse globally due to lack of pollinators. I get that the ticks are annoying but we are destroying insects which we are reliant on also
Whether you personally hate them or not is irrelevant as it contributes similarly to their demise. Monoculture lawns create biodiversity dead spaces
Your use of computing devices contributes as well. You tossing your laptop/desktop/phone/tablet? Nope.
Didn't think so, but keep wagging a finger, lol.