Mown the lawn yet?

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When do you start cutting the grass? Some people on my street have already started - although they're all retired with a bit of time on their hands.
I generally try and hold off until April and then stop again in November.
My mother (84) would love to cut the grass every week of the year - don't know why - think she sees it as a kind of housework and generally she's butchered the lawn by the time June arrives then spends the next 4 months wondering why her grass won't grow!

my back garden is like a rice paddy field so the grass wont be getting done any time soon!

Same here - yet my mother has been moaning at me for 2/3 weeks to come and cut her lawn! Will probably do it this weekend even if I have to go out in a dinghy.

cut mine about a fortnight ago, really it is the weather that dictates my mowing regime than the calendar. If the grass is long, its is dry and there is no frost in sight, a gentle cut is a good thing.

You need to set the mower blades on a high setting, definitively don't want to scalp your lawn.

Not going to need to at this rate, DS and his footballing friends have turned it into a mud patch . But the bits round the edges do need strimmering this weekend I think.

my guinea pigs are mowing it for me :)

I cut mine for the first time a few weeks ago, and it needs doing again now. If it's growing I cut it, if it isn't I don't. In mild winters I have kept cutting it all year. Raised blades October to March though.

I always though it was gardening law not to cut grass over the winter - perhaps it's just folklore.
And our garden, as soon as the summer sun starts to fade, holds the water and resembles something from the swamps of the Deep South - as does my mother's but nothing stops her.
Gardening is like outdoor housework.

Your mum sounds like my nana, does she also have one petunia plant per regulation foot of space in the border? With nothing in between? I did my lawn for the first time today, it's been so warm it has grown like the clappers.

I did it yesterday! But we're in Hampshire and it's been so dry.

oybbk I had piggies for 30yrs and am currently piggy-less (will get more when we can afford a bigger house). They used to go a grand job keeping the lawn short.

Twice.

How do you stop the guinea pigs eating all the flowers too though? I have a vivid childhood memory of letting our new guinea pigs out in the garden for the first time and watching them zoom into the borders and disappear...and being able to track their progress by watching tall flowers being felled in their path...

Our piggies have a large mobile run :)

My old g pig used to fell all my young bay trees I was growing in pots.

We haven't cut our lawn as its mostly moss after the winter. North facing garden, dog cats chickens gpigs and kids and the snow that sat on ground for three weeks have TRASHED it. But we did lawn feed and seed it yesterday. So when we actually have some grass, will cut it weekly

My gardener did it last week

Did my mum's yesterday. The front was more waterlooged than the back - it now looks more like Michael Carroll's back yard.
The back wasn't too bad but takes a lot of mowing.
UnrequitedSkink - absolutely - we had to move the potted annuals into their 'summer' positions too. Also go round the edge of the lawn with this pair of vertical bladed clippers - takes ages (50' x 100').
She doesn't seem to notice the holes in the middle of the lawn (from her various chemical 'lawn improvers' - as long as the edging is trimmed)
I reckon it's like a man with hair on the sides keeping it nicely trimmed and not noticing that the rest of his head is bald!
A gardener - nice!

No sign of enough growth in ours yet to be worth getting the mower out! But we did buy a pack of weed/feed/moss-killer which we will scatter on it, probably next weekend now though. And then we'll get the rakey machine thing out. Our lives would be simpler if we just redefined moss as "pretty much the same as grass" and stopped fighting against it.

That's what I've done in our own garden. I think's it's actually about 80% moss - but it's green and what do I care? I'm not taking up crown green bowling!
My mum's mad for all sorts of lawn 'treatments' - most of the time the lawn looks like a grassy interpretation of the Singing Detective.

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