Do you judge people who don't mow or weed their lawn?

[Tobythecat]

Do you? Mine was overgrown for a little while and everyone else's was freshly cut, I felt a bit scruffy

Is this a thing that people judge their neighbours on?

I wouldn't judge but it would irrationally irritate me.

If the lookof the house etc indicated that maybe they’d not got the money for a mower, probably not. If they’d got decent cars and other shiz, I’d assume they were lazy feckers.

Nope.

Dandilions are the first source of food for bees. It's sensible behaviour to leave them as they are.

We’re supposed to weed our lawn?

I'm with Janice. Weeding a lawn?!

Weeding! If I removed all the weeds, not sure how much green would be left.

And anyway, plain grass is environmentally bleak. My lawn was snowdrops, primroses,speedwell, buttercups, daisies....if the neighbours don't like it, tough. I also have butterflies & bees.

I do cut it once a week though, unless it's raining.

I like the way my lawn looks with dandelions and daisies!

Also at this time of year mowing is like trying to put shoes on a centipede. We are mowing ours front and back every 10 days or so and it's still growing like crazy and looking unkempt after about three days. But we would both rather spend our time not mowing the lawn so every 10 days is about all we can cope with.

No I woulden't, there may be many reasons why you cannot (illness, disability, working long hours).

As I didn't know weeding the lawn was a thing - no! I wouldn't judge

I don’t judge my neighbours for their lawn but I do judge them for growing ivy all over my fence.

Weeding no, but I did inwardly raise my eyebrows at the neighbours who were trying to sell a nice family home in a nice area without attempting to cut the front lawn all summer. The sale was completed 6 years later!

Grass can get long, particularly at times like now when temperatures are warm but there's still a lot of moisture in the ground. There's a difference in the looks of "didn't get round to mowing last weekend" and wondering if shopping trollies might be lurking within!

A few years back, our great, wise and esteemed council decided that civic grass cutting was an appropriate way to save a few grand, and reduced the schedule to 3 cuts a year... They sent the machinary out in late spring/ early summer to discover that it simply couldn't handle vast amounts of knee length grass!
They had to reinstate the previous schedule

another non-weeder - our lawn is more weeds than grass... we do mow it every week or so.

Our cul-de-sac looks nice when everyone has mown, so I can understand the "scruffy" feelings... though I would not necessarily even notice if the grass wasn't cut.

If it’s hugely overgrown then yes I do! It looks bloody awful and it’s so easy to sort

Weeding it, I don’t know dh might do ours but I certainly never have! I probably wouldn’t even notice if your garden needed weeding.

My front is awful. past my knees and now has brambles/stinging nettles. Gone past the capabilities of my lawn mower. Waiting for BIL to have time to come over with his petrol strimmer to tackle it for me.
My back garden is a different story. Cut grass, flowerbeds.

Our NDN is about 90 and mows his lawn like every other day, his grass is so short it is regularly on the bring of dying. We used to alternate as we have a shared front garden, My husband would mow both sides one week and the NDN would mow both sides the next. We actually had to ask him to stop doing ours because he was doing it so often and it looked terrible, plus we couldn't keep up with his frequency to his liking.

I'm sure he hates us as we let some time pass between mows. Not that we let it look like a full on meadow, but we just prefer a more grown out lush look than golf course grass. We also let the daisies/mushrooms grow while he weeds his out.

Personally imo lawns are a waste of space and I'd rather have a vegetable patch out there.

Definitely not if it was your back garden but if it was the front and was making the street scruffy I might raise an eyebrow. Only if it was a real meadow though! I certainly don't expect everyone to have perfectly manicured lawns all the time.

And I never bother weeding lawns!

I hope people don't! I keep the front reasonably tidy, but DH is in charge of mowing (or outdoor hoovering as we call it). Which means it often gets left for weeks on end as he doesn't get much time.

Also, when we moved house, our mower broke. And we don't have the money for a new one yet. Though going by piggery's comment, she'd probably judge us, as it looks like we have money (but the new house broke us!).

Nah I don't judge them as people but I do think it looks a mess and would love to get my mower on it Next door have let theirs get to knee height, I never knew normal grass grew so tall!

Yes I would - sorry..

Yes I would - sorry
But you're not sorry, if you were you wouldn't do it, so why say so?

I wouldn't judge but I do wonder why some people don't bother cutting the grass at all? It's just more me being nosey though

I hate gardening and only mow the front when I can't see the cats in the grass and the back when I can't see the kids

Saying that I should do it today as it's nice and I have the time.

My parents in law neighbour doesn't mow her garden - she has a lot of issues going on in her life so it probably isn't a priority for her. The upstairs neighbour though mows his bit - which is connected. It's essentially one bit of land that they share but no fence. Upstairs guy does his but not hers so there is literally a line where it goes from neat to messy. The area isn't big - it would take him about an extra two minutes to do her bit too. Apparently he is a bit of a misery. Wouldn't it be nice if neighbours helped each other out?

Not mowing until it's knee high, yes I'd judge. Wouldn't judge level of weeding at all, weeds are generally green too so it's all lawn to me.

No weeding for me either, my lawn would be a brown mess if I did that It all blends in.