Re: "No mow May"
[Re: k snow]
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07/10/23 07:20 PM
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Its pretty much been a no mow summer here. With lack of rain, I've only mowed 3 times. You got that right. I've only mowed once.
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Re: "No mow May"
[Re: k snow]
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07/10/23 07:48 PM
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Its pretty much been a no mow summer here. With lack of rain, I've only mowed 3 times. Same boat here. I mowed the back yard around the watered garden last Saturday. Otherwise, I've mowed only twice. She's pretty brown here.
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Re: "No mow May"
[Re: AJE]
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08/19/23 01:38 AM
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I just use an old sigh & remove the high spots once in a while. I let the grass go to seed. The grass seems thicker & more lush..and seems to have less crabgrass.
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Re: "No mow May"
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08/21/23 10:19 PM
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Supposedly longer grass also deters japanese beetles from mating in a person's yard.
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Re: "No mow May"
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08/22/23 02:29 PM
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How long should the grass get before mowing? If you need to start a "grass fire" to find your lawn mower you maybe waited a bit too long!
Bryce The mowers stay in the barn. I hit mine with the bushog first.
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Re: "No mow May"
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04/30/24 07:42 PM
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at one point i wasnt allowed to mow cause i ran over a rake that was green like the grass
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Re: "No mow May"
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04/30/24 08:00 PM
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During the early to mid 1970's. my father rented me out to all the elderly neighbors like a rented mule to cut their lawns........FOR FREE !!! Once I left home in 1977, I vowed never to cut lawns ever again & so far.......NO MOW !!! walleyed
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Re: "No mow May"
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04/30/24 08:12 PM
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I have places already knee high so I mowed half the lawn yesterday have to get to more in the next few days
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Re: "No mow May"
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04/30/24 08:19 PM
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Ok, I keep my man card for this post, but I haven’t mowed the yard in years.
Before the boys got of age I used to mow with a push mower. We bought a riding mower a year before the boys were “old enough” and when they came of age they took over lawn duties.
So once the boys left the mower had seen its better days so we hired a yard crew. Mow, weed eat, blow, and even pine straw in the flower beds.
Well, my wife makes a comment to her brother one day that she sometimes misses mowing the yard…yeah I thought of having her checked out after that comment. Two weeks later a semi with a forklift pulls down the road and stops in front of the house. A guy gets out and unloads a brand new lawn mower and asks where do we want it parked? We both laughed and said you must be at the wrong house. He turned to my wife and said is your name Angie? She said, yes. He said well this is from your brother.
So since that time my wife has mowed the yard, lol. What’s so bad is when she goes out of town she takes the keys so I won’t get on it! She says it’s her “therapy” and she’ll need it when she gets back! I figured what the heck, have at it!!
I now help with the pines straw and dig the holes for flowers and trees, but that’s it.
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