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As someone who tends to be a super inconsistent lawnmower and often goes 3+ weeks in between mowing, I'm not sure I totally agree. Leaving the lawn to grow out

As someone who tends to be a super inconsistent lawnmower and often goes 3+ weeks in between mowing, I'm not sure I totally agree. Leaving the lawn to grow out for more than three weeks makes it pretty unusable, especially for our dogs, with giant weeds (with spikes that hurt the dogs' legs) and thistle bushes and whatnot, and when you do mow it takes 2-3 times as long and the mower tends to get clogged up a bunch, and you need to extra careful about not hitting a rabbit or other nest, which might have been built in your yard because the weeds got so deep. When I do mow I do try to leave some patches of clover for bees, though, and let some thistle plants grow in a few clumps. I do wish people wouldn't obsessively mow and poison their lawns with weed killer to keep their lawns only consisting of grass, though. Nothing wrong with dandelions and clover and the occasional thistle. As for polluting, I use a plug-in electric mower, so it doesn't really pollute much. I do wish electric mowers were the norm.

Forgeties79 5y ago
Plant local flora/grasses that don’t need constant management. The manicured lawns we generally do are full of non-native plants and require more care.
- cableshaft 5y ago
  There's a prairie right beyond my backyard. We get plenty of local flora from it. Still needs to be mowed periodically.
ghaff 5y ago
And where I live in New England, it will grow to very tall grass, brush, and eventually trees which you really don't want right up to the house because it's a potential fire hazard and you can't easily even walk around the house through it after a while. I don't have most of my property mowed (just basically a band around the house) and I don't apply weed killer/water to it. I do have someone knock the field down with a tractor brush hog once a year so it doesn't transition to forest which it would on its own.
- emj 5y ago
  I maintain a forrest around the house with just enough shade to make the undervegation grow with berries and such. Once per year I just walk around, remove small saplings, do some chainsawing of larger things and take down one tree. That's all. The tree is a quite a lot of work when you do not know how to handle it but it gets easier every year in the beginning. This is not considered a fire hazard here, but yeah we do not have that many trees close to the house.

Forgeties79 5y ago

Plant local flora/grasses that don’t need constant management. The manicured lawns we generally do are full of non-native plants and require more care.

cableshaft 5y ago
There's a prairie right beyond my backyard. We get plenty of local flora from it. Still needs to be mowed periodically.

ghaff 5y ago

And where I live in New England, it will grow to very tall grass, brush, and eventually trees which you really don't want right up to the house because it's a potential fire hazard and you can't easily even walk around the house through it after a while. I don't have most of my property mowed (just basically a band around the house) and I don't apply weed killer/water to it. I do have someone knock the field down with a tractor brush hog once a year so it doesn't transition to forest which it would on its own.

emj 5y ago
I maintain a forrest around the house with just enough shade to make the undervegation grow with berries and such. Once per year I just walk around, remove small saplings, do some chainsawing of larger things and take down one tree. That's all. The tree is a quite a lot of work when you do not know how to handle it but it gets easier every year in the beginning. This is not considered a fire hazard here, but yeah we do not have that many trees close to the house.