How do you mow your lawn?

[Gaina]

We've got half an acre so Dad has a ride-on mower (Mam and I call it his 'Noddy Car' ), but I ask Dad to leave little wild patches at the front, round the apple trees for insects and wild flowers .

[smartie]

Originally Posted by Tormentil

Infrequently.

Ditto We mow paths through it in the spring (petrol mower) and leave the rest until it's time to cut the hay. Even then, a section of the lawn gets left unmown to provide grass and plantain seeds and stone parsley and willow herb and wonderful spear thistles and......

[NigelT]

My lawn is getting smaller and smaller.
It started off about twenty years ago large enough for the kids to play footy and badmington. then came a small pond, then a larger pond, then a bog garden and a wild area for weeds to help insects. Now the lawn is about 20 foot diam and mown occasionally.

I look out at the daisies covering the grass and the clover flowers and feel they are too nice to cut so they are left till there is company coming and then we cut - not often.

[Suffolk-Chris]

After the onset of back problems, plus an OH with mowaphobia, our small back garden has run totally wild this year. Great for wildlife, not a day goes by without hearing another snail meeting its maker at the hands(?wings?? beak???) of our thrushes, or an excited squeaking of sparrows, finches and tits. The crop of brambles promises to be fantastic, although we did have to take some action the other day when the bramble sent an exploratory tendril through the bedroom window and started to make a dash across the ceiling.......

My neighbour (immaculate garden) hates us........

[Goosegogs]

What's a lawn? Most of the front "lawn" consists of daisies and dandelions, plus self-heal and plantain.
Just watched a Shaun the Sheep episode- how about grazing power, plus a hedgetrimmer - aka Goat.

[solus]

When we moved into our house twenty seven... er... a long time ago both front and back gardens were almost all grass. In the intervening time various things like plants and ponds encroached and the beds expanded and the grass areas shrunk progressively until all that remained was just a pathway winding round the back. This was a real pain to mow so it was replaced with paving slabs interspersed with gravel (a perfect seed bed for things to grow in unbidden!) So - nothing left to mow! Both front and back are now what 'Imself refers to as my "Jungle" with which he will have nothing to do. Apart, that is, from grumbling about various plants (ususally wet!) which manage to lean over onto the driveway to attack him when he's getting in or out of the car! And I make him climb up the ladder to regularly cut back the creeper on the back of the house which otherwise would gallop all over the roof and block the windows.

[almostnormal]

the parentals mow it infrequently, however, ours really only grows in fits and starts. bless the doggy, he's managed to cause mass of weirdly growing lawn. but we generally leave it becuase over the months when there's baby frogs and newts hopping and wriggling about in the grass you can't mow it anyway. then all the cowslips come out in the early srping, and obviously we can't mow them, and later on we get other wildflowers so, umm...we really don't mow it at all until sort of july? and this year it was so wet we had to keep putting it off becasue the adult amphibs were all over the place, along with the baby ones.

[Gaina]

Originally Posted by Goosegogs

What's a lawn? Most of the front "lawn" consists of daisies and dandelions, plus self-heal and plantain.
Just watched a Shaun the Sheep episode- how about grazing power, plus a hedgetrimmer - aka Goat.

I would love a goat, I've been yammering on for a pygmy goat for ages using that very argument! The thing that worries me is F&M . I swear I'd brain anyone who tried to take my goat off me

[FourwingsJNR]

We have 3 goats on the longer grass but on my football pitch cricket strip we use mainly use a very simple tractor mower and sometimes a little mower

Matt H

[Duke of York]

Unfortunately I have not been able to mow ours for the last couple of weeks as our electric flymo appears to have gone to silicon heaven

We do have one guinea pig but our lawn is a bit big for him

But the problem has been solved for now as we have now borrowered Nettle Runner's flymo