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Long grass

(5 Posts)
fiorentina51 Sun 17-May-20 09:16:32

I have to say the rest of the garden is the tidiest it's been found years!

Alexa Sun 17-May-20 09:16:14

My elder son would happily and regularly cut my grass and is slightly disappointed and ever so slightly disapproving I insist on letting the grass, daisies, clover, and dandelions grow to full flowering. I like flowers of all sorts.
Later on in the season after flowering, if I am still here, I shall have it cut once or twice and then let it grow again to from a thick thatch to keep the clay from turning into mud in the winter.

fiorentina51 Sun 17-May-20 09:14:29

Part of our back garden is on a steep slope so we only cut it 2 or 3 times a year. We were encouraged to leave off mowing by our then 9 year old daughter who had become a bit of an eco warrior and wanted some wild flowers for the butterflies.
I'm so glad we did. On one patch I cleared it by putting cardboard over the grass, which I left to rot for a year, then scattered a couple of packets of wildflower seeds over the bare earth. The rest, mother nature has done.

Hetty58 Sun 17-May-20 08:49:22

I've had plenty of free time to mow mine. It's now like a bowling green, my pride and joy. What's your excuse for leaving it? No gardener?

magsmay55 Sun 17-May-20 08:47:15

Hi everyone.has anyone left their grass to grow over lockdown and turned it into a meadow. If you have have you any photos.