We mow just often enough to stop the township from sending angry letters. So about once a month of that.
When I moved in, I told my neighbor I only mow my yard once every 2 weeks. Something I read that said it would help the bees. He’s done the same to match. We also have lightning bugs now, which I didn’t notice the first year.
I aim for once every 2 years lol.
I think my neighbor doesn’t like me, but I got butterflies for days
Are you supposed to do it more? When I lived with my parents and had access to a yard that’s about how much we did it (cause it was annoying to do it more)
Much, much less. The city I live in wants to promote biodiversity and has adapted their mowing schedule for this. Large parts of public greenery are only mowed once or twice per year. Other parts 6 times a year. Some parts are mowed 20 times a year, e.g. fields for kids to play on, or where it would be a safety issue (e.g. high growth blocking view around a corner), but that’s just a small portion.
Also in some parts they only partially mow, to create spaces where there are different heights of greenery. They also sowed a lot of mixed flowers, which looks really nice.
Some people mow twice a week. Lawn is basically their hobby.
Is your neighbor Hank Hill by any chance?
I usually have to mow once a week when we’re not in drought, otherwise the lawn gets too high, but during the heat of summer I don’t have to mow at all because the grass goes dormant.
what exactly is “too high”? because if you mowed once a week here you’d be tilling the fucking soil
5 inches at a minimum, at least in most spots
Before I bought a house, I only knew once a week when I was growing up. Seemed to be based on the neighborhood (upper Midwest).
My yard is a hot mess and the fireflies have started showing up.
Also rabbits, and there’s a fox den nearby and they show up occasionally.
I don’t like the fox because it took a huge hairy musty shit in my window well, it was putrid. I don’t know if he pooped into the well like an outhouse, or popped with his little head poking out.
Lmao fox shit
Shit on the entrance to his burrow to assert dominance
Direct link to the Maryland bill passed: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0322f.pdf
Your house gets to have a yard?
these houses were bought in times when housing was affordable
You guys get to have a house?
So lawns are the reason people don’t vote. They are distracted by mowing. And the ruling class likes it. I get it.
It’s easy, just live where no one else wants to live and then just be permanently broke.
It’s No-Mow-May.
Tell the HOAs to get stuffed and put the mower away for a few weeks.
I’ve already seen quite a few mason bees buzzing around in my yard.
I used to love sitting out back and watching them in the old house I was in. Now I’m an apartment dweller and the only bugs I see outside regularly are paper wasps.
I’ve been considering a local wildflower mix to take over a section of mine- good for the bugs, less stupid expanse for me to mow.
I’m going with wild clover and flowers I think, clover loves it here and is all over the place anyway. Never gotta mow it.
I just gotta get off my ass and find the time…
We have white clover and if unchecked it grows above your shoes and leaves walking paths.
I still prefer it to grass but I do mow it occasionally. It bounces back quickly and seems happy.
It’s very fluffy in the summer which is a great vibe for the lawn.
I highly reccomend using native species. They are better for pollinators
That’s all I’m using :)
That looks nothing like my yard but still don’t see as many LBs as I used to. People blame yards like the one here and pesticides, but I don’t know. I felt like in the 80s and 90s there was an even bigger obsession with manicured yards and people found the most toxic stuff they could get their hands on to spray around their homes. Still had tons of lightening bugs then.
There are a lot of factors. I’ve heard light contamination is harmful for lightbug populations. And the modern LED streetlights are much brighter than in the 90s
Is that from a robot mower?
The type of morons with gardens like these would see that as a good thing
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You don’t know how hoas work do you?
1st off, every hoa has regulations on lawns. It’s the bare minimum of virtually any hoa. Not quite to the extent of the photo, but absolutely will fine for any weeds, or unapproved plants.
2nd, most hoas have hurdles in vote counts to change a rule. The biggest being your Karens and Kens who are the ones who call you in because you have one dandelion in your yard. Others include only voting like once a year.
3rd, if your hoa is fairly new, your community in most cases, has to be nearly complete before you can even vote out hoa members to try to change the board.
Hoas are a nightmare and take monumental shifts and time to make changes.
