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[-] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Some people mow twice a week. Lawn is basically their hobby.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Is your neighbor Hank Hill by any chance?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If Hank Hill was my neighbor he would probably ask if he could take care of my yard just so he wouldn't have to look at it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

what exactly is "too high"? because if you mowed once a week here you'd be tilling the fucking soil

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Too high for me is when even at the tallest setting my lawn mower struggles to cut which is probably like 6+ inches as a guess. Usually the first mow in the spring is difficult if I attempt "no mow may".

I don't understand how you'd ever be 'tilling the soil' unless you don't know how to adjust your mower height, maybe you could elaborate?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What zone are you in?

My grass is ready to be cut by march and now mow may only results in not waist high grass IF I mow it April 30th

Your experience relative to my experience can show how the other persons experience can be so drastically different too

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

5a. Grass grows like crazy from May into July. August it usually goes dormant because I don't have irrigation and then I don't have to mow until it cools down again.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Probably why. Here in canada, same as this guy, literally have to mow it every week or it gets too long and the mower stops working well.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

5 inches at a minimum, at least in most spots

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I aim for once every 2 years lol.

I think my neighbor doesn't like me, but I got butterflies for days

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Every two weeks? That’s ridiculous??? We only do it twice a season.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

Shit on the entrance to his burrow to assert dominance

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lmao fox shit

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

Your house gets to have a yard?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

You guys get to have a house?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So lawns are the reason people don't vote. They are distracted by mowing. And the ruling class likes it. I get it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's easy, just live where no one else wants to live and then just be permanently broke.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

We mow just often enough to stop the township from sending angry letters. So about once a month of that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The city I used to work for tried banning mowing certain times of year, and had to back down due to all the lawsuits coming in.

My current city is trying to ban leaf blowers (they're terrible in like 8 different ways), but that's also very difficult.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Township here just doesn't want a shaggy lawn. It still takes them awhile to send the letters. In summer we get it mowed once a month (or once they send a warning), winter we just don't mow. It doesn't grow enough.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Mines currently wildflowers, bunnies and at least one mole.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

We need a federal law against requiring grass lawns. People need to be legally protected when they want to replace with native/edible plants.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't know how to tell you gently.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

MD HB322 is the GOAT.

Basically every stupid rule my HoA has to enforce a “super short cut grass lawn” was invalidated by that.

Now I have a pollinator sanctuary in my front yard.

Fuck grass.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Is that from a robot mower?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That is actually kind of beautiful. Unless you are on the ground of course

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