I did it last year and saw no noticeable difference in the time frame Usually I don't cut that low and there are flowers anyway as I don't weed the lawn.
No. I have enough flowers in the borders and live in the countryside with many flowering plants nearby, so I don't see the point. I don't like too tidy lawns though, I mow every 2 weeks on the highest setting, which is good enough for low flowering plants like clover to give them a lot of flowering time.
I should add that I don't scalp my lawn, I mow once a week or so on a medium setting, I don't use chemicals on it, and it does have clover, daisies, speedwells and violets in it at the moment. I just like it to look level and green to set off the rest of the garden, and it is a garden not a nature reserve. The nature that comes in is welcome of course. The other consideration is that my OH is allergic to grass pollen. It's impossible to avoid completely but avoiding flowering grass in our own garden helps. Although last time I mowed I noticed that some of the grass is already flowering below the mower height (don't tell him, he'll want me to cut it shorter).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
This is first time I have heard about it. I was anyway doing no mow May because I dont have time to mow. It has not been raining so even grass is not growing much. To be honest so far only thing that is happening is loads of dandelions are setting seeds. No wildlife or anything else.
I don't really do mowing, to be honest. In my roughly 2 acre garden, there are two areas of weedy, mossy lawn about 6 feet x 12 feet each and those I'll keep mowing all summer when I can be bothered (every 3 weeks or so, unless it rains all summer again). The rest is either planted with shrubs and perennials or just left to do it's own thing with a path through it that OH gets the flail mower on 3 or 4 times a year. The birds, slow worms, grass snakes, hedgehogs, toads, voles, mice, hornets, butterflies, moths, hoverflies, bees and goodness what else are all happy with the mess. And it is a mess, but it's full of life. Not for everyone, I know, but it makes me happy. I don't have the tidy gene
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Our main law is cut throughout the growing season, but we have been keeping it a bit higher the last year or so. We don’t use weed killer and have learned to embrace moss and ‘weeds’ in a “life’s too short” scenario. We have left a patch at the back long so far this year however, just to see. We keep a ‘wild’ area right at the back of the garden, behind some trees, so there is plenty of habitat there (bindweed, brambles etc too but I pull some to keep it from going too rogue). We also have a small patch of ‘lawn’ in the front but it’s a shady area under Holly trees so apart from a carpet of primroses in Spring, I haven’t seen many wildflowers unfortunately and that only gets one strim per year.
No .I think it’s a daft idea ,to not mow for a month ,what use to wildlife is that? Anyway my neighbours garden is a huge overgrown mess so no need for me to join in
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I don't like too tidy lawns though, I mow every 2 weeks on the highest setting, which is good enough for low flowering plants like clover to give them a lot of flowering time.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It has to be one of the most stupid things I have ever heard of.