Lawn mowing... warning ⚠️

[Vitamin c]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk- ... uZRA%3D%3D

A call to not mow your lawn by all the usual greenies , save the planet and us .

What you gonna do...

[Yorkshire Andy]

Too late I scarified mine a week ago

On the other side I've got a small wildlife area on my allotment to encourage bees / pollinators , and a pond in the garden

And behind our house is a massive area of trackside undergrowth about 30m either side of the rail line ...

Ps I also washed my fake grass backway today covering the 1970's concrete slab patio which is err horrid

I cut the hedge today which is usually a no no at this time of year but the 4 legged savage has told me there's no nesting birds in there as she's not killed anything lately or shown any interest in the hedge... Saves me from getting a nasty letter from the council at any rate, couple of years back I got a letter about the front hedge been " a bit messy". They didn't like my response basically asking for them to put in writing that they are requesting me to breach The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and knowingly disturb the nesting blackbird in the hedge......

I never got a reply from the desk jockey in the council office who I politely explained the issue to or another letter or enforcement action once they'd fledged I hacked it back by about a foot leaving it looking dead for a few months
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[jansman]

It makes sense to be honest,not cutting the grass in order to preserve insects etc. I hate lawns.However,our huge garden had a lawn for about a dozen years or so ,simply so the children could have a swing,trampoline etc. When they became teenagers with no interest I dug it and banged more hens in there! Far more interesting than mowing lawns!
That’s the point though; lawns can look nice,but they are a waste of life - Mine!. It’s bad enough I have hedges to maintain ( next door’s growing through the 120’ wire mesh fencing I put up 33 years ago). I love my veg garden,but even that has to be as work- free as possible,as life is too short!

[Yorkshire Andy]

AHH it's your fault Jansman hens = no grass or insects

[jennyjj01]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk- ... uZRA%3D%3D

A call to not mow your lawn by all the usual greenies , save the planet and us .

What you gonna do...

Uh?

Nowhere here is richer in wildflowers and insect pollinators than our traditional hay meadows. Sadly, in the last 60 years, we've lost 97% of this precious habitat."

SO. I will refrain from mowing my traditional hay meadow! WTH has that got to do with lawns?

To be fair, those who mow the goodness off of their lawns, lob the good stuff in the brown bin, then try to replace it with feed&weed then do it all again, are being a bit daft and wasteful. Plus all those hours wasted nurturing a lawn. So I generally agree to mow less. I have my area for wildflowers and pollinators, but there's a place for everything except dandelions in my front lawn. Nuts to that dopey idea.

If I had my way, both front and back lawns would be sowed with veg, which would go down like a lead balloon on the suburban open plan estate. (Would that be legal? I wonder?)

[jansman]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk- ... uZRA%3D%3D

A call to not mow your lawn by all the usual greenies , save the planet and us .

What you gonna do...

Uh?

Nowhere here is richer in wildflowers and insect pollinators than our traditional hay meadows. Sadly, in the last 60 years, we've lost 97% of this precious habitat."

SO. I will refrain from mowing my traditional hay meadow! WTH has that got to do with lawns?

To be fair, those who mow the goodness off of their lawns, lob the good stuff in the brown bin, then try to replace it with feed&weed then do it all again, are being a bit daft and wasteful. Plus all those hours wasted nurturing a lawn. So I generally agree to mow less. I have my area for wildflowers and pollinators, but there's a place for everything except dandelions in my front lawn. Nuts to that dopey idea.

If I had my way, both front and back lawns would be sowed with veg, which would go down like a lead balloon on the suburban open plan estate. (Would that be legal? I wonder?)

Many years ago on the estate I lived upon as a lad,a complainer told the council about his elderly neighbour who had an ‘untidy ‘ front garden. Lawn with flower borders. Mr Mee was a world war 1 veteran who was elderly and ill. He dug the garden and planted spuds in neat rows! Then asked the council to deal with the scrap cars on the front of the neighbours house! Nothing more happened.

[Frnc]

Ok, cut it the other day but will leave it until July now.

Another thing that could well be harmful to bees etc is global warming. We have no idea how exactly they will fare, how quickly they will adapt. I don't think there's ever been the same combination of temperature increase and rate of increase.

3.5 million years ago, before the ice age, there was a similar CO2 level as today. It was warmer, 2.0 - 4.5° above pre-industrial baseline, but there wasn't the sudden change. It had been like that for millions of years.

Then came lower CO2 and the ice age, which has 100,000 year cycles of glaciation, followed by interglacials (we are in one now). The change at the end of the glaciation phases was quite fast, but probably not as fast as now, and it never got as hot as it will get.

Bees aslso suffer from dehydration in droughts. A third of our food depends on pollinators. The total honey bee population in the U.S. is now only half of what it was in 1945.

[korolev]

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk- ... uZRA%3D%3D

A call to not mow your lawn by all the usual greenies , save the planet and us .

What you gonna do...

Uh?

Nowhere here is richer in wildflowers and insect pollinators than our traditional hay meadows. Sadly, in the last 60 years, we've lost 97% of this precious habitat."

SO. I will refrain from mowing my traditional hay meadow! WTH has that got to do with lawns?

To be fair, those who mow the goodness off of their lawns, lob the good stuff in the brown bin, then try to replace it with feed&weed then do it all again, are being a bit daft and wasteful. Plus all those hours wasted nurturing a lawn. So I generally agree to mow less. I have my area for wildflowers and pollinators, but there's a place for everything except dandelions in my front lawn. Nuts to that dopey idea.

If I had my way, both front and back lawns would be sowed with veg, which would go down like a lead balloon on the suburban open plan estate. (Would that be legal? I wonder?)

Many years ago on the estate I lived upon as a lad,a complainer told the council about his elderly neighbour who had an ‘untidy ‘ front garden. Lawn with flower borders. Mr Mee was a world war 1 veteran who was elderly and ill. He dug the garden and planted spuds in neat rows! Then asked the council to deal with the scrap cars on the front of the neighbours house! Nothing more happened.

Two things.
1. I complained to the council about a hedge in my old road that the owners had allowed to grow so far over the six foot pavement there was only about a foot to get past. A few weeks later it was cut right back.

2. A house in the next road over from us had gardens so overgrown that the council issued an enforcement notice and, when not complied with, sent contractors in to clear it.

[grenfell]

Mixed feelings about this one really.
The logic of leaving lawns for the benefit of insects and wildlife is sound and could also be argued that not cutting must save a fair bit of petrol and electricity . That said I do cut several lawns as part of the maintenance I do. People who like nice tidy lawns tend to have borders filled with flowering plants that attract the insects in their own right. Very few seem to be just grass. Then there's the ones with dogs who don't clean up after them. I have one where I have to spend 10 minutes going round shovelling sh*t. If that grass were to be left till mid july I dread to think what it would be like , certainly wouldn't be pleasent trying to pick wet dog mess out of long grass.
Maybe it might be a good idea for things like plastic grass to be outright banned , less building on green belt , and developers required to put in a "proper" garden far too many are slabs , gravel and a tiny bit of grass.

[Vitamin c]

Our new modern lives with no time to garden so ,fake grass , patios , decking , its everywhere all the DIY shops have sold fake grass for a while now .

Why ... money how many women stay at home looking after children or pop them out and streght to grandparents or childminders
How many men do 10 /12 hour days even Saturdays to make ends meet .
Growing up as a kid my mum was a part time cleaner ans was home for the family.

30yrs of progress almost no mum's at home these days ... not only gardening is suffering.