I used to love sitting out back and watching them in the old house I was in. Now I’m an apartment dweller and the only bugs I see outside regularly are paper wasps.
When I moved in, I told my neighbor I only mow my yard once every 2 weeks. Something I read that said it would help the bees. He’s done the same to match. We also have lightning bugs now, which I didn’t notice the first year.
Are you supposed to do it more? When I lived with my parents and had access to a yard that’s about how much we did it (cause it was annoying to do it more)
Some people mow twice a week. Lawn is basically their hobby.
Is your neighbor Hank Hill by any chance?
If Hank Hill was my neighbor he would probably ask if he could take care of my yard just so he wouldn’t have to look at it.
I usually have to mow once a week when we’re not in drought, otherwise the lawn gets too high, but during the heat of summer I don’t have to mow at all because the grass goes dormant.
what exactly is “too high”? because if you mowed once a week here you’d be tilling the fucking soil
Too high for me is when even at the tallest setting my lawn mower struggles to cut which is probably like 6+ inches as a guess. Usually the first mow in the spring is difficult if I attempt “no mow may”.
I don’t understand how you’d ever be ‘tilling the soil’ unless you don’t know how to adjust your mower height, maybe you could elaborate?
We mow just often enough to stop the township from sending angry letters. So about once a month of that.
The city I used to work for tried banning mowing certain times of year, and had to back down due to all the lawsuits coming in.
My current city is trying to ban leaf blowers (they’re terrible in like 8 different ways), but that’s also very difficult.
Township here just doesn’t want a shaggy lawn. It still takes them awhile to send the letters. In summer we get it mowed once a month (or once they send a warning), winter we just don’t mow. It doesn’t grow enough.
Direct link to the Maryland bill passed: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0322f.pdf
MD HB322 is the GOAT.
Basically every stupid rule my HoA has to enforce a “super short cut grass lawn” was invalidated by that.
Now I have a pollinator sanctuary in my front yard.
Fuck grass.
The type of morons with gardens like these would see that as a good thing
