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?

Yes, I judge. But probably because my DH is obsessed with the state of our lawn. If I actually had to do any lawn maintenance myself, I probably wouldn't be arsed and would consider a slovenly lawn entirely reasonable.

It used to annoy me and then I gave birth last year at the end of May and just had no time to get stuff done with a newborn!
People just may have lots going on.

Hope no one does, as we have two mowers. One broke end of last Autumn, so we thought we'd use the other. That one won't start. So we're trying to get hold of a spare part for the first, and it's proving difficult.
Currently we have a nice wildflower meadow out front.

I was thinking of putting a notice up:
"Anyone who want to complain at the length of the lawn please knock and I'll give you a pair of scissors to do it yourself."

My husband keeps ours pristine. I don’t judge other people’s unmown lawns, but I do think ours is nicer!

Like @Neolara, if it was down to me, I wouldn’t bother, or be able to be proud of it.

Is that a euphemism

No, I’m more likely to judge people with immaculate lawns. I remember my childhood neighbour going out to her (fake) lawn with fucking tweezers she was that pedantic!? Yet they’d call the council on my folks because our lawn was unkempt mainly because my parents worked nights and slept during the day and it wasn’t a priority. Personally if I owned my house I’d concrete the whole frigging lot! I hate gardening!

We didn't mow ours for most of last year because we had ragwort in our lawns that were covered in cinnabar moth caterpillars.

Cinnabars are beautiful! We don't seem to get them here, but a few years ago, I was staying with a friend near Solihull and we took the dogs for a walk in some country park and it was inundated with them. Lovely things, and well done you for encouraging them.

Soupdragon I manage to harvest three pounds of seeds last year and that was only about 3/4 of the poppies. I just left to seed themselves.. I never realised the wonderful colour combinations they have

I love the daisies, clovers and Violets on my lawn for bees and birds

Fresta... I've had no luck with relocating any poppies..they actually seem quite fragile once you take them out of the soil. I've got enough seeds to keep them going though

We mow once a week or so, the neighbour said opposite mow every few days, and has been caught mowing ours and several neighbours lawns in a regular basis!! She can't help herself!!

No, but then my lawn is a (very) small meadow. It gets trimmed every so often.

Not if it makes mine look better. But might annoy me if I am trying to sell.

This is mine. Judge away.

Ugh! Fat fingers!

Another reason for mowing around the buttercups...

Gives the cat somewhere to ambush me from

No. My rabbits mow and weed mine for me.