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    Toddy replied to the thread No Mow May.
    Ah, no, I don't not mow for a month, I don't mow until May is by. That way it's like cutting hay.
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    Toddy reacted to Keith_Beef's post in the thread BcUK Photograph of 2026 April Heat with Like Like.
    Reflections in windows. Reflection of Saint Mathew's Church (on Carver street), seen in a window of Cambridge Street Collective...
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    The evidence suggests otherwise. In a natural ecosystem where browsing controls the grass length, short periods of time of long grass...
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    Toddy reacted to FerlasDave's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    Honestly the amount of worm castings that come up through my lawn don’t doubt they’re busy! Also plenty of bees around in the scruffy...
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    Toddy reacted to TLM's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    I cut an area around the house to keep ticks away on the rest I just have cut paths.
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    Toddy reacted to Springchicken's post in the thread No Mow May with Love Love.
    I try and have a mix of mown and untouched: I try and keep what I grandly call 'the lawn' under my enormous walnut tree short-ish...
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    Toddy replied to the thread No Mow May.
    The newts are actually why I started not cutting my grass. We have two ponds now, and they have newts and frogs....and they hatch the...
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    Toddy reacted to FerlasDave's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    I think there’s a significant difference between a conventional lawn, and an area of long grass that contains wildflowers or other...
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    Toddy reacted to Lean'n'mean's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    We only have grass in front of the house & some to the right, prehaps around 300 sq meters in all & if I left it until may, which has...
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    Toddy reacted to Mesquite's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    I mowed our lawns today and I'll probably leave the front lawn now until June as it's got a lot of wood violets (Viola odorata) on it...
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    Toddy reacted to Pattree's post in the thread No Mow May with Love Love.
    My garden is purposely messy for the benefit of an ecology that includes me! :lmao:
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread No Mow May with Love Love.
    I know people that actually put up signs saying 'this garden is purposefully messy for the benefit of wildlife' :)
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    Toddy replied to the thread No Mow May.
    I have neighbours, and they cut their grass to the mm. I trim my edges, keep the paths clear, and leave the rest to grow and bloom :) It...
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    Toddy reacted to Pattree's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    I’d like to claim that my non-mowing intervals were as well planned. I certainly won’t be cutting grass until after May. I want to see...
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread No Mow May with Love Love.
    I totally agree! I have three grass-cutting regimes on my patch that tries to emulate variations in herbivore browsing in the distant...