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No Mow May - gardeners encouraged not to cut lawns in May
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Read my previous posts on this page. Either way, no worries. I'm not assigning a moral judgement on you. That's been my point. Cheers!
What? You've just been repeating the same thing for the last few responses lol
Yeah, I think doing some light trimming actually makes it look even better. This website has a lot of good examples. The park near my house is mostly mowed grass, but all trees have a good 5-10 feet of unmowed grass around them.
Can This Garden Be Saved: I Don't Like Mowing Around Trees - Gardenista
Lawn mowing around trees can be awkward. Follow our landscaping ideas to avoid lawn mowing around trees: long grasses and shaggy lawns can enhance a garden.
www.gardenista.com
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If you can't comprehend my point, regardless if you agree or disagree, then that's entirely on you. All good though, lol.
Thanks for the discussion.
Feel like hooking up some tips/tricks would be best, if folks are open to it. Not that they aren't in the thread, but still.
In the US the problem I guess is that there's going to be drugs ans guns piling up in the grass so for security reasons everything must be mowed down!
I don't see how not mowing a lawn can improve the environment. Does tall grass really have that big an effect? Now, maybe if it was no-water May…. I mean, it's not like lack of mowing will suddenly make local plant life replace all the other plants…
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I remember we didn't mow the lawn for a few weeks one summer and then all sorts of weeds and wild mushrooms started to infest our lawn and the neighbors. The weeds were the main issue and it took forever to get them tamed or ridden of
I definitely have plans to get rid of as much of the grass as I can.
There's more than just grass that is inhibited from growing.
Ok I guess lol you just kinda repeated yourself for the last few responses. All I"m saying is that this is a pretty easy area to do better in
Not mowing actually will help some local plant life take hold and possibly outcompete grass. We refer to a lot of those as "weeds" tho
Heh. I bought a house with 1500m2 garden that's completely overgrown with bramble, nettle and giant hogweed. Especially the latter is great fun to remove. But yeah, somewhere down the line imma have me some wild fields full of flowers. Not fond of mowing anyway and those robot mowers are an absolute nightmare for hedgehogs (don't look up pictures unless you want to be scarred for life).
That tends to happen when your points get ignored or misunderstood or intentionally taken out of context.
What may seem "pretty easy" to one person can come with complications that make it unsuitable to another. Doesn't make them an immoral person. Doesn't mean they don't care. That's been my only point of contention regarding this.
We had a rodent problem that was only solved by mowing our backyard so that they don't have any shrubs to make nests
I tried this a few years ago and my neighbors reported me to the city for "overgrowth and litter". I got a letter in the mail telling me i needed to cut everything back by a certain date or the city would come out and do it for me and I thought "hell yeah, free mow job. thank you, tax dollars!"
Posted about it on facebook and was quickly made aware that the city would fine me $500 if they had to come out and do the work.
in this city, Lawn Mowers stay winning 😞
Same. I'll make sure not to mow my rocks this month, just like I did last year.
I have a flower and vegetable garden in my backyard of the house I rent (I don't have a front yard though). Nothing to really "mow" per se, aside from keeping weeds in check. I'm preparing to buy a house soon, and I may just straight up buy this property off of my landlord when the time comes. But regardless of where I end up, HOAs are an absolute dealbreaker. Not going to have some busybody with too much time on their hands tell me that having a garden is "ruining neighborhood character."
Lots of people in my neighborhood (and the city more broadly) have gardens in their yard, or at least landscaping that's much more interesting than a plain lawn. It always cheers me up to just take a walk around and see what people do with their yards.
Lots of people in my neighborhood (and the city more broadly) have gardens in their yard, or at least landscaping that's much more interesting than a plain lawn. It always cheers me up to just take a walk around and see what people do with their yards.
Doing my bit by being lazy. My only issue is when mowing it last time a frog got shredded later in the year :/
Yea when I see this stuff I'm like where do these people live that rats and mice don't?
Anyway, down here the wildflowers are in March April and we left them alone but mowed around them.
Yeah exactly this. Where I used to live, if we didn't cut we would get all sorts of animals including snakes, mice, etc.
I would love to try this one year but... I live in Florida, in an HOA community and am the first house when you enter the community. No way I would get away with it, lol.
I keep a wild patch and some flowers for the bees but no I will not be participating in this. Either the city would get mad or it would be too high to mow with my equipment.
Yup.
Grass already cut and sprayed for weeds. But hoa's are the worst.
I mowed my back garden the other day, but I've left my front garden unmowed since April - the grass is 3ft tall now, ha! I'll strim it in a couple of weeks.
Mixed here, with most areas left for wildlife and some areas cut for paths and to keep it looking like a garden rather than just a meadow. I did try not cutting the whole thing once, but at over 4000m2 it became a nightmare as the grass was too strong, so a balance was needed. I tried cutting it all with a scythe once as well, which nearly killed me.
It's sad to read how backward the US is with garden culture and not allowing spaces for wildlife, because it looks untidy... not suprised though.
It's sad to read how backward the US is with garden culture and not allowing spaces for wildlife, because it looks untidy... not suprised though.
I wish my neighbors would go along with this, not because I have anything against mowing the lawn per se, but because I have a hearing disorder and gas-powered lawn mower engines are absolute torture (I'm not just talking "loud sound" annoyance here, the sound genuinely makes my stomach bubble and makes me feel like I have to vomit). I have a myriad of ways to try and avoid it but some days the mowers go 7-8 hours and it's just not realistic that I can be out of the house all of that time. Ear plugs don't work either as the engine rumble is too deep to get blocked out. All I can usually do is listen to loud music and that creates a whole host of other problems.
I would love if there was a national "everyone switch their gas-powered mower to electric for free" month too haha. Those don't really bother me that much.
I would love if there was a national "everyone switch their gas-powered mower to electric for free" month too haha. Those don't really bother me that much.
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Man, that really sucks. You can come move next to me. I use a silent push mower. 😃
my wife and i live on a 44 acre patch and barely mow much of it. the wildlife is IN-SANE in a good way- it is so cool to see frogs and toads, praying mantises, grasshoppers. we also have seen spicebush, sassafras trees, and other life emerging in those places we stopped mowing. it has been awesome for diversity where we live.
That sounds ideal. I've had genuine fantasies of buying my neighbors quiet mowers for Christmas or something but don't really know them well enough to actually attempt it lol.
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Viral tweet to bring the month to an end
View: https://twitter.com/sweatystartup/status/1663327756946493441
View: https://twitter.com/sweatystartup/status/1663327756946493441
And people in this thread will call this beautiful and a utopia for wildlife.
Nah, you got bug infestations and invasive weeds growing up your house.
Mow your lawns.
Yep. This is out of hand and needs to be dealt with.
Regarding the tweet, I largely dislike HOA's but the tweet makes a good point of the positives of an HOA. The point is to keep the neighborhood not looking like a junkyard.
