Stop Mowing The Lawn !

[Oh_hunnihunni]

That clippings round the tree thing is a trap too. The heat and the acid build up stunts if not kills trees, better to mulch with compost or bark. The clippings are fine in thin layers in the compost or mulched back into the lawn, and you are right the cut needs to be higher and less frequent in these dry weeks. When my step father in law arrived one Christmas to spend a month with us he took over mowing. We had a big lawn, a little handmower, and he delighted in going out every few days and taking another inch off. He was amazed how fast a Taupo lawn grew v his tiny Cambridge UK one did and wouldn't hear of doing it any other way. I can see him now in my head, long shorts, skinny white legs, socks with sandals, and the knotted hankie on his bald head, pushing that thing up and down in the midday heat.

Englishmen! All mad as hatters...

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Everyone around here gives their lawn a No1 with the catcher...and tosses the clippings in the park, around trees. My lawn is always thick, never use a catcher, I wait until it's a struggle to give it a trim. Maybe I should wait longer....

There is all sorts of things in my lawn, and it's interesting to see them come and go...come and go. Only thing I have a mission on is Cape Daisies, they will spread if you let them. I need new Crocs - the Onehunga Weed goes right through them.

I remembering reading how a well kept lawn is a symbol of Western consumerism, and the writer was dead right. Only the wealthy have them, the land for most is too valuable to waste not growing food...
We could benefit from a similar attitude, we'd all be better fed, happier, and healthier!