Are you doing 'no mow may' ?

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We have large front and back lawns and doing the no mow may the grass is lush and imo flowers, bees, insects and birds visiting are fantastic. We've had goldfinches visit for the first time pecking on grass seeds and various visitors coming in for a peck about.
Our neighbour, on the other hand has started mowing his two lawns twice a week, normally does once a fortnight. PA or what? 😀
Personally couldn't care less what other people do with their gardens but it is amusing all the same.
Anyone else doing the no mow thing and if so, how's it going?

We are fully embracing No-mow-May for the second year running. Lovely flowers springing up in the grass, happy insects and birds (had Goldfinches enjoying the dandelion clocks this morning) and I don't have to mow for a month. What's not to like!?

No. Our lawn is huge, and cutting it again in June would be an absolute nightmare.

However, I do loads of other things for the wildlife in the garden, and we have a large corner dedicated to grasses and perennial meadow plants, so nothing is missing out.

Yes in the back garden but only partially in the front garden.

Tbh we don't have any interesting flowers. Just grass, daisies and dandelions. The cats like it. We do have quite a few butterflies though.

We are one of the hated people with artificial grass, we do have a reason for it (autistic child who hates grass) and the actual area of grass is quite small (feel free to Judge i have an Autistic child im used to it). The rest of the garden is full of bee friendly flowers and we have used clover to create 'grassy' areas around plants for insects. We have an insect house which is home to lots of woodlice and spiders and bird nesting boxes at both the front and back of the house. Bird baths and feeding tables scattered around the garden and weve just made a rockery area in the front garden with a natural water feature.

I think its really unfair when people jump to the conclusion that because you have artificial grass you dont care about the environment, my neighbours have grass but no flowers and use ant killer and slug pellets because they hate insects.

I no longer have a garden but when I did I used to save a circular shape of grass and wildflowers in our front garden. I placed a bird feedeer in the middle of it and a bench on the mowed bit. Used to love sitting out there in the summer evenings. I used the kids trampoline and cut around that in early spring to get the round shape, then I moved the trampoline and just used that as my guide when I mowed the lawn for the rest of the summer. It actually looked very neat and colourful, not messy.

I haven't heard of this.....but I've accidentally been doing no mow May, and April......and March.....and February......!!
The grass is waist high, but the wildlife love it🙂

We tried but had to give in yesterday. The grass had gotten so long the kids couldn't play out and foxes had moved in! We could only see them from the upstairs window as grass was so wild

Against my wishes!
Still waiting for my housing association to arrange a once monthly mow. Lawn was laid in September and it's not been touched since.
My animals love it (although I can never find them when it's time to come in) 😂
I'm annoyed because by the time they do get it arranged i fear it will all be dead underneath.
I have a very large garden too.

We had goldfinches on the dandelion heads. It was so amazing to watch from inside the house. I meant to make dandelion wine but having seen the birds on them I'm glad I didn't.

Yes.

If you want to slow down the grass choking out wildflowers, try buying a big packet of yellow rattle seeds - aerate the lawn in autumn and scatter them everywhere. It's a beautiful wildflower, parasitic on grass and will weaken the grass plants enough to allow other things to thrive.

We are 🐝 🐜 🦋 🪲 🐞 helping our little friends however we can

Yes but we hate gardening so literally any excuse to not mow the lawn is enthusiastically taken.

I did verbally tell them about it but I just got a snippy "well, WE don't like the look of it!"

The amusing thing being they don't even have to see it, we live on a no through road (so there's no reason to pass our place), the houses are reasonably spread out and they can't see into our garden without making an effort, due to the hideous leylandii they insist on having.

Sadly not, as we have a dog who will cheerfully clean up after himself and make himself ill if he does a sneaky poo that's hidden in the long grass, but we back onto a huge field full of dandelions and buttercups, so mowing our tiny patch won't have a significant impact on the local ecology. I have been mowing around the daisy patches though, and we have a big organic no-dig allotment with the edges left wild, so we're doing our best.

I haven’t mown my lawn since last summer. Fairly small garden. Lovely variety of grasses, weeds and flowers. Lots of birds including a robins and Starlings nesting. The dog has made herself a couple of pathways through to the end of the garden.

We are leaving our back lawn for the whole of May. There’s speedwell everywhere, it looks gorgeous! The tiny cat came bounding over the other day doing big bouncy leaps over the longer grass stems, it looked very funny!

We will keep the sides long all summer, I think, but we need to cut the main part so we can actually use the lawn (not least for parish functions!) but it is lovely leaving it long. We did it last year too and the cats and kids thought it was the best thing ever

I did No Mow January - went well.

This sign is the kind of twee twattery that would make me (lifelong vegetarian, cycles instead of drives where possible, tries to tread lightly) cut my grass twice a week.

We've cut our lawn once - the council has gone for No Mow May and it has rendered some of the cycle paths and footpaths completely impassable. Also my hay fever this year has been horrific.

Not yet as I don't have grass yet. Its just flags and a bit of dirt. But I plan to have a small meadow type lawn by the end of summer. Anything to encourage wildlife. I've been doing some planting though and have already noticed an upshoot in bugs and birds visiting.

Yes we are doing 'no mow may' but lots of neighbours not doing it.

Not necessarily no mow may as it was cut last week but we only ever really do our grass once a month or up to 6 weeks anyway because we hate doing it! There are all kinds of flowers growing in it at any time of the year, from daisies and dandelions to buttercups, wild violets, wild peas and clover. We have flowering bushes around the edge of the garden and a couple of big planters that I sowed with wildflower seeds last year, which have returned this year.

No 😭
I intended to as I usually do every year but I had a letter about the grass from the council as due to the rain and it was nearly a foot high so had to do it

Yes. We've done it for the last few years. Large garden and we mow a path and leave the rest to go wild.
It's even more important to do it now with the increasing number of idiots adding fake grass to their gardens.

Not really but I'm only mowing once this month. I've done it today and it was knee high! Now I'm enjoying the freshly mown look. I've planted lots of flowers for pollinators and we live opposite a large meadow so I think our local wildlife is OK.