“Being warned” in this case meaning a charity has urged people not to – for good reasons sure – but ‘warned’ makes it sound like it’s forbidden or illegal or something.
Too late, I already started mowing mine a month ago.
We mow ours but it is covered in flowers all summer. They soon grow back. Plus we have beds and tubs full of insect friendly plants. Mown grass can be a habitat in its own right.
Warned not to mow their lawns? Are the Piranha Brothers going to visit if I do?
I like the “Being warned”. It makes me imagine some sovereign citizen Mirror reader getting all flustered about his rights as an Englishman to mow his lawn. How it is a woke assault on his national heritage, that proud tradition of revving up the mower at 7am on a Sunday morning.
“It’s just like the masks” he’ll mutter to himself. “Next step, concentration camps, mark my words”.
Ask the councils not to mow. Saved a few quid while providing natural habitat. Not as if people picnic on roundabouts and verges.
They claim it’s going to help the climate crisis. And true a little bit of electric/petrol is burned for half an hour while mowing.
But compared to the amount of energy used to drag a ton of metal 50 miles a day to work and back, it is not even peanuts.
And long grass probably isn’t going to attract much wildlife, it’ll just look a bit scruffy and take 3 times as long when you do get round to mowing it. Not mowing grass does not miraculously make wild flowers. And if you plant wild flowers it probably takes more than just May for them all to bloom.
Maybe instead of trying to cut back on mowing they could suggest something positive like encouraging people to plant wild flower seeds. Possibly in a dedicated wild area of garden. Then instead of looking like angry killjoys, striking at the foundations of British gardening, they look like peaceful nature lovers encouraging others to spread the love.
Mean while, the park near me is getting a full field concreted over so they can make a bike track that will no doubt attract all the scooters in the area…
Depending on your type of grass it might be worse, both because it actually requires more water and also because it can suffocate the grass which require more treatment down the line that would be more wasteful.
Its weeds with flowers they want you to save, not grass.
The grass in my back garden is currently knee high, and after a winter of the dog doing its dailies out there is a minefield
It’s getting cut as soon as its dried out enough to send the Mrs of there with a butt load of black plastic baggies
I mowed mine today, full of dandelions it was. There’s thousands of em all over the estate so mine lost their heads. Soon be back, and anyway if I didn’t cut me lawn the neighbourhood cats wouldn’t have anywhere to crap!
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“Being warned” in this case meaning a charity has urged people not to – for good reasons sure – but ‘warned’ makes it sound like it’s forbidden or illegal or something.
Too late, I already started mowing mine a month ago.
We mow ours but it is covered in flowers all summer. They soon grow back. Plus we have beds and tubs full of insect friendly plants. Mown grass can be a habitat in its own right.
Warned not to mow their lawns? Are the Piranha Brothers going to visit if I do?
I like the “Being warned”. It makes me imagine some sovereign citizen Mirror reader getting all flustered about his rights as an Englishman to mow his lawn. How it is a woke assault on his national heritage, that proud tradition of revving up the mower at 7am on a Sunday morning.
“It’s just like the masks” he’ll mutter to himself. “Next step, concentration camps, mark my words”.
Ask the councils not to mow. Saved a few quid while providing natural habitat. Not as if people picnic on roundabouts and verges.
more info here without causing distress to nervous people etc
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/garden/1430946/no-mow-may-2021-benefits-green-britain-evg
They claim it’s going to help the climate crisis. And true a little bit of electric/petrol is burned for half an hour while mowing.
But compared to the amount of energy used to drag a ton of metal 50 miles a day to work and back, it is not even peanuts.
And long grass probably isn’t going to attract much wildlife, it’ll just look a bit scruffy and take 3 times as long when you do get round to mowing it. Not mowing grass does not miraculously make wild flowers. And if you plant wild flowers it probably takes more than just May for them all to bloom.
Maybe instead of trying to cut back on mowing they could suggest something positive like encouraging people to plant wild flower seeds. Possibly in a dedicated wild area of garden. Then instead of looking like angry killjoys, striking at the foundations of British gardening, they look like peaceful nature lovers encouraging others to spread the love.
Mean while, the park near me is getting a full field concreted over so they can make a bike track that will no doubt attract all the scooters in the area…
Depending on your type of grass it might be worse, both because it actually requires more water and also because it can suffocate the grass which require more treatment down the line that would be more wasteful.
Its weeds with flowers they want you to save, not grass.
The grass in my back garden is currently knee high, and after a winter of the dog doing its dailies out there is a minefield
It’s getting cut as soon as its dried out enough to send the Mrs of there with a butt load of black plastic baggies
I mowed mine today, full of dandelions it was. There’s thousands of em all over the estate so mine lost their heads. Soon be back, and anyway if I didn’t cut me lawn the neighbourhood cats wouldn’t have anywhere to crap!
Click bait headline leading to a ‘load of bollox’ article