• Zectivi
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    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.

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      I aim for once every 2 years lol.

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

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      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)

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        Much, much less. The city I live in wants to promote biodiversity and has adapted their mowing schedule for this. Large parts of public greenery are only mowed once or twice per year. Other parts 6 times a year. Some parts are mowed 20 times a year, e.g. fields for kids to play on, or where it would be a safety issue (e.g. high growth blocking view around a corner), but that’s just a small portion.

        Also in some parts they only partially mow, to create spaces where there are different heights of greenery. They also sowed a lot of mixed flowers, which looks really nice.

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        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.

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

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            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?

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              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

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                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.

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                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.

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        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).