is anyone going to leave the mowing in May?

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God no, it looks shit and makes it harder in June.,,

No. We have dandelions all over the place, not only the lawn.

We have lots of dandelions, they don't just grow on lawns

We didn’t mow at all about three years ago but it was dreadful trying to get it all cut down before the winter. Dh and to mow it about 4 times! So now we leave one smaller area uncut, and it looks beautiful, but mow the main lawn.

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l do tend to leave mine longer because l prefer the more natural look and encourage the wildlife. My front lawn is full of daisies, it looks pretty, and l saw a tiny pale blue butterfly out there earlier.

Our garden is quite unkempt anyway even with the mowed lawn, so there is always loads of insects and random flowers, we also have a couple of large trees that birds nest in.

Yes, I’m going to.

No we are not going to leave the grass for a month as neither my husband nor I are in any condition to tackle long grass .

We have done half and half so the dog can still have emergency poops out there and I'm not digging about in overgrown grass. We also have a wildflower corner, loads of bee friendly plants and little bee hotel. I love bees especially bumblebees.

Could you just leave a small patch wild? Every little helps.

I get the front mown and I mow the lawn closest to the house at the back but the rest I leave to grow wild. Makes it much more interesting from a wildlife perspective.

@CarrieCookie Yes, we do have two wild patches actually! So we do get a lot of bees and butterflies which is nice. But it's not really any grass, just plants (weeds ).

Sadly no. I love the whole wildflower meadow idea but our garden serves as a public facility for a couple of local moggies and I don't fancy getting splattered in shite come June when we decide to mow our lawn again. I quite like the cats visiting, just not their excrement.

Definitely not. My grass is weird - blooming thick and grows really fast. If I left it for the whole of May, I’d have no easy way of cutting it.

This is probably mainly aimed at those small gardens in new builds that have a square patch of grass and a patio, most older houses will have mature gardens with wilder spaces anyway, the grass areas will just be a small part.

I've tried it in April and it's just so unkempt / messy it's driving me crazy .
I'm going to compromise and leave the perimeters alone and strim / cut the middle .

We left one half of ours for May and June last year and honestly it looked awful and was a bugger to cut when we did do it. Also we got wet ankles going up and down to the greenhouse in the mornings because of the dew. The cats clearly didn't like it either.

This year I have only done it once so far (at the end of March) and I went carefully around all the areas with flowers - we get lots of primroses, speedwell and dandelions but they tend to stick round the edges not cover the entire lawn. I am going to leave the parts with these flowers for a few more weeks but the main part of the lawn is getting cut.

No because otherwise it is hell picking up my dogs poo.

i must admit we did this 25 years ago, and dh mowed a path through it, however ds saw a snake,
so that was off putting

i just hope they leave parts of the verges longer

Yeah, but my garden is the size of a tablecloth and two chickens and a dog wear the grass out anyway. I tried putting wildflower seeds in a bare corner but with no rain nothing will come out of it.

Definitely. I did it last year and the flowers were lovely.

No because it would be deemed a breach of my tenancy agreement.

We've left it the last few years until the end of May but we've moved house recently and I'm trying to get on top of the pruning and tidying of the mess that was left here. We always try and leave plenty of wild areas though.