The day after I received my copy of this I went walking out by Dennehys Cross and saw the church there cutting the grass.
Been doing this the last couple of years. The only garden in the estate that looks like a meadow this time of the year, much to my neighbours liking
Nature so needs a helping hand,Not heard a Corncrake in donkeys.
Feel like a lot of people will see this, say fuck it, start mowing their lawn and think to themselves “boy, I hope all my neighbours don’t mow theirs so it can help the bees”
We’re doing this, gave the grass a shave on Friday and the mower will stay in the shed until June.
Be interesting to see how much growth there’ll be, think I last cut the grass three weeks or so ago, and it was close to a foot tall in the sunniest places.
Good on them.
A few years ago my neighbours thought it was weird that I didnt mow the back lawn. Now most of them are on the no-mow buzz as well.
It’s half past 9 on May 1st and someone is already cutting the grass. Guess their leaflet didn’t arrive
I’ve a grass in the back I like to use so I cut the grass.
I’ve started having a margin around the edge I let grow out. It’s mostly weeds though. I have some areas of my garden that grow no grass and usually just nettles. I pulled all the nettles out and planted some wildflower seeds. I’ve yet to see them come through but the got a lot of water in march and may should be fairly warm so looking forward to see them come out.
Cutting my lawn in the afternoon- there’s no excuse to let a lawn get out of control in fairness.
Too wet here the past few days so will do one cut today and that’s it for the month. The rear I’ve a small lawn that I’ll cut but front is full on wildflower, with heather and lavender too. Bees love the heather. I need to get more in.
I find a good compromise on this if you still want to keep your lawn looking tidy is to just cut around the perimeter and have an area in the middle like this. Looks neat and tidy and offers a space for insects.
Can’t wait for the start of June when everyone has cut their grass and all redditors who agree with no mow may are MOWhere to be seen.
Lil help please. I have a back garden facing northwest in Dublin and a tiny scrap of earth in the front. They are both overrun by grass and weeds and I’m happy to leave them that way til June before I start mowing/using the shears.
But I’d like to cultivate them if possible for maximum benefit to insects and bees and have no idea where to start. I know nothing about gardening. I’d love to have both as patches of native weeds, grasses and flowers.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to start? Is there a reliable Dummies Guide to Rewilding Your Irish Garden anywhere?
Edit: I’ve been told, rightly or wrongly, if I just mow the grass and sprinkle wildflower/wild grass seeds, the existing grass will just outcompete them and I’ll just end up with the same garden.
I like my back lawn mowed for the kids to play about and as an outdoor space for BBQ etc…
However I’ll be leaving my front lawn unmowed and am going to put wildflower seeds there for autumn.
Is there a little sign or something I can get to show passer bys / neighbours?
I want them to see I’m going in intentionally and not just being lazy.
Wicklow County Council ran a campaign a couple of weeks ago urging everyone not to mow on the council website/Facebook.
Although on the exact day they started the campaign they had crews all around Wicklow Town mowing every bit of land with a blade of grass.
I received last week and the council mowed all the green are in Cabinteely. Well.. not make sense, there were a lot of dandelions and other small flowers 🙁
An Post want me stop mowing in May. Grand, so long as they come do the first cut in June.
Residential gardens take up a tiny fraction of space and, instead of targeting the real culprits (farmers) it’s seen as a good idea to target lads with a few square meters in a feckin housing estate in Clontarf. I will be treating this as the nonsense it is.
I’ve been doing this the last few years too, and there are tons of different bees down the end of my garden now, the sound of buzzing down there is unreal. SUMMER!! I love it.
Recent similar thread –
Just went to a big garden centre and there was a whole “bee friendly” section, so picked up some lavender and salvia to plant for our buzzy friends.
We threw down some Irish wildflower seeds a few years ago out the front garden and they’re starting to come up now. Love a foxglove. I’m more of a “let it go wild and if it survives, it survives” gardener myself, rather than having a lovely manicured garden.
My ma lives on a council estate and the cunts next door keep reporting her for leaving her grass, and the arseholes in the tenancy office keeping sending letters to give out. No chance we could do this, even though we’d love too.
I don’t know the figures for Ireland, but the UK has something like 460000 hectares of gardens, and 23 million hectares of agricultural land. Gardens are not really the problem.
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The day after I received my copy of this I went walking out by Dennehys Cross and saw the church there cutting the grass.
Been doing this the last couple of years. The only garden in the estate that looks like a meadow this time of the year, much to my neighbours liking
Nature so needs a helping hand,Not heard a Corncrake in donkeys.
Feel like a lot of people will see this, say fuck it, start mowing their lawn and think to themselves “boy, I hope all my neighbours don’t mow theirs so it can help the bees”
We’re doing this, gave the grass a shave on Friday and the mower will stay in the shed until June.
Be interesting to see how much growth there’ll be, think I last cut the grass three weeks or so ago, and it was close to a foot tall in the sunniest places.
Good on them.
A few years ago my neighbours thought it was weird that I didnt mow the back lawn. Now most of them are on the no-mow buzz as well.
It’s half past 9 on May 1st and someone is already cutting the grass. Guess their leaflet didn’t arrive
I’ve a grass in the back I like to use so I cut the grass.
I’ve started having a margin around the edge I let grow out. It’s mostly weeds though. I have some areas of my garden that grow no grass and usually just nettles. I pulled all the nettles out and planted some wildflower seeds. I’ve yet to see them come through but the got a lot of water in march and may should be fairly warm so looking forward to see them come out.
Cutting my lawn in the afternoon- there’s no excuse to let a lawn get out of control in fairness.
Too wet here the past few days so will do one cut today and that’s it for the month. The rear I’ve a small lawn that I’ll cut but front is full on wildflower, with heather and lavender too. Bees love the heather. I need to get more in.
I find a good compromise on this if you still want to keep your lawn looking tidy is to just cut around the perimeter and have an area in the middle like this. Looks neat and tidy and offers a space for insects.
Can’t wait for the start of June when everyone has cut their grass and all redditors who agree with no mow may are MOWhere to be seen.
Lil help please. I have a back garden facing northwest in Dublin and a tiny scrap of earth in the front. They are both overrun by grass and weeds and I’m happy to leave them that way til June before I start mowing/using the shears.
But I’d like to cultivate them if possible for maximum benefit to insects and bees and have no idea where to start. I know nothing about gardening. I’d love to have both as patches of native weeds, grasses and flowers.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to start? Is there a reliable Dummies Guide to Rewilding Your Irish Garden anywhere?
Edit: I’ve been told, rightly or wrongly, if I just mow the grass and sprinkle wildflower/wild grass seeds, the existing grass will just outcompete them and I’ll just end up with the same garden.
I like my back lawn mowed for the kids to play about and as an outdoor space for BBQ etc…
However I’ll be leaving my front lawn unmowed and am going to put wildflower seeds there for autumn.
Is there a little sign or something I can get to show passer bys / neighbours?
I want them to see I’m going in intentionally and not just being lazy.
Wicklow County Council ran a campaign a couple of weeks ago urging everyone not to mow on the council website/Facebook.
Although on the exact day they started the campaign they had crews all around Wicklow Town mowing every bit of land with a blade of grass.
I received last week and the council mowed all the green are in Cabinteely. Well.. not make sense, there were a lot of dandelions and other small flowers 🙁
An Post want me stop mowing in May. Grand, so long as they come do the first cut in June.
Residential gardens take up a tiny fraction of space and, instead of targeting the real culprits (farmers) it’s seen as a good idea to target lads with a few square meters in a feckin housing estate in Clontarf. I will be treating this as the nonsense it is.
I’ve been doing this the last few years too, and there are tons of different bees down the end of my garden now, the sound of buzzing down there is unreal. SUMMER!! I love it.
Recent similar thread –
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/132qm8d/a_third_of_all_bee_species_in_ireland_could_be/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/132qm8d/a_third_of_all_bee_species_in_ireland_could_be/)
No mow = “let’s excuse laziness”.
Love this!
Just went to a big garden centre and there was a whole “bee friendly” section, so picked up some lavender and salvia to plant for our buzzy friends.
We threw down some Irish wildflower seeds a few years ago out the front garden and they’re starting to come up now. Love a foxglove. I’m more of a “let it go wild and if it survives, it survives” gardener myself, rather than having a lovely manicured garden.
My ma lives on a council estate and the cunts next door keep reporting her for leaving her grass, and the arseholes in the tenancy office keeping sending letters to give out. No chance we could do this, even though we’d love too.
I don’t know the figures for Ireland, but the UK has something like 460000 hectares of gardens, and 23 million hectares of agricultural land. Gardens are not really the problem.