How often do you mow your lawn at the moment?

QTPie

Thanks very much.

No option to cut it more regularly, I am afraid.

We seem to have two differnt types of grass in our lawn: finer grass which isn't growing too fast really, but a very strong peppering of thicker grass (which were 20cm, 9 days after mowing).

We have a 4 year old (probably about as active as a springer spaniel ) and the lawn is just not great for playing on at the moment - long and generally wet/dewy (I think that the soil is quite clay based).

QT

Ash_McCloud

It's mild, and rainy atm.

You could cut it weekly.

moneyistooshorttomention

Can I ask a subsidiary question to this please?

How long will meadow grass grow if left totally uncut ever?

lostinrates

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Can I ask a subsidiary question to this please?

How long will meadow grass grow if left totally uncut ever?

It will thatch.


It won't get longer that it would in the first year, imagine un cut grass where you walk in the country side or behind the cut section on verges and add a little) but it will eventually weaken in the root as if uncut the too will die over winter but left standing, will blog light and air to the base of the plant.

Even meadow for beauty need cutting once or twice a year. ( autumn)

moneyistooshorttomention

So I guess I can take it then that it wouldn't ever grow more than, say, about 2' high even if never cut again? and that would be because it would die-off of itself at intervals then.

So, its definitely a "looks" thing, rather than a "necessity" thing then.

Thanks.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

So, its definitely a "looks" thing, rather than a "necessity" thing then.

Thanks.

But surely no gardening is a 'necessity.' It all depends on POV.

No one gardened at my place for about three years. Some say not a lot went on before that either, but I can't comment. I just know where the owner was for the last 3 years, and that didn't give any scope for gardening!

The world carried on turning, and indeed, if you happened to be a dormouse, it was really much better then.

Haven't found too many dormice nests lately!

moneyistooshorttomention

Am quite happy to help the local dormice along Dave:D and a few wildflowers as well.:D

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Am quite happy to help the local dormice along Dave:D and a few wildflowers as well.:D

Although you may please the rodents, the wildflower situation is not so simple. Many wild flowers depend on some form of management, either by cutting or by grazing. Left entirely to its own devices nature may give you something less pleasing than a hay meadow!

Here is a picture of my garden almost exactly five years ago:



It's just a mass of grasses interspersed with docks, comfrey, brambles and thistles. Although it's May, hardly anything is flowering attractively, though I suppose the comfrey must be.

By July/August there were a lot of seeds blowin' in the wind! :eek:

A garden like that out in the wilds won't bother anyone much, but produce the same in town and you may find your only friends are the dormice, if you have any!

lostinrates

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

So I guess I can take it then that it wouldn't ever grow more than, say, about 2' high even if never cut again? and that would be because it would die-off of itself at intervals then.

So, its definitely a "looks" thing, rather than a "necessity" thing then.

Thanks.

Eventually your grass will struggle.


Grass involves management. Not necessary mowing, but grazing. Otherwise would eventually turn to scrub, via a weedy rout.

moneyistooshorttomention

If scrub is deemed a "cardinal sin", then I can imagine there must be a few neighbours on REALLY bad terms with each other, having noticed several gardens in the vicinity that have the dreaded Japanese Knotweed.:eek: That would be one way to make sure that no-one/but no-one ever spoke to each other again, ie if they had JK and knew it but weren't responsible enough to deal with it:eek: