Can I give my lawn its first first haircut of the year today?

[teamcullen]

Yes I am [thick] a very novice gardener

yes I'm just about to do mine, have edged it already.

yep! Have just finished mine...and the sound of lawnmowers has been in the air all morning.

use a slightly higher setting than you would do in the summer, don't cut it too low the 1st time

mine has had 3 haircuts already.Slatterns

My husband, who gardens for a iving, is apparently going to do ours any minute...

living even.

cornsilk...lucky you, that implies you live somewhere sunnier than wet old Ireland!

Anywhere is sunnier than Ireland!

mines had 3 as well, as long as it isn't pouring. If you leave it too long for the first trim it will be yellow

Ahh dont dis Ireland's weather, its the only place I ever get away to.

Oh the green green grass concrete housing estates of Ireland.

Thanks everybody Ill go drag out the mower.

I go there a lot as well.Many happy memories of sitting on the beach wearing thermals in August.

i hoovered the lawn last weekend, this weekend i have been shaving the bushes.

ohher!

Ooh time to phone the gardener.

Beaches in Ireland! We are rarely that lucky. Its Clondalkin in Dublin for us. By the time we have been summoned to various relatives, there is no time for beaches.

Or the day we plan for the beach, low and behold.... its raining

Still DCs choose it every year as the place they want to spend their hols.

DS wants to live there because kids in Ireland are allowed to swear!!

teamC tell your DS I said !!

the rains of Ireland are elsewhere today, kids are a tiny bit sunburned, must dig out the sunblock tomorrow!

and you're all right, crap weather in general but splendid beaches galore

Competitive mowing along here yesterday. Ours wasn't running well though so have gone for the barely trimmed look !