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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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On 21/04/2017 10:16, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:57:58 +0100, harry

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On Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:21:49 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:05:48 +0100, Max Demian
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On 20/04/2017 09:00, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:50:57 UTC+1, Max Demian wrote:
On 18/04/2017 23:42, newshound wrote:
On 4/18/2017 8:21 AM, Bod wrote:

Agreed. My landscape gardener told me many moons ago that
grass likes
being cut, but weeds don't. I just mow regularly and they
eventually
disappear.

I believe it is an evolution thing. Grass grows from the
bottom,
which
is why they survive grazing herbivores better than broad-leaf
plants,
which grow from the top.

That doesn't mean grass *likes* being cut.

Grass evolved to be cut by grazing animals.

It evolved to tolerate grazing.

So mowing is normal.

Well, "natural", as in similar to the natural state.

As there is no animals ****ting, it has to be fertilized
instead.

Because it loses leaf matter to the mower.

Only if you rake it or use a box. I don't. Even people who do
still
have healthy green lawns without adding anything, so clearly it
doesn't need fertiliser.



For a while.

I've not fertilised mine or left the clippings on it for 17 years.
It's
fine.

Ours has never been fertilsed nor watered, I always leave the
clippings
on the lawn, they provide nutrients when they break down naturally.
Our lawns look as good as anyone elses that do fertilise their lawns.
I let ours go brown in the dry summers, I actually like that because
it
saves me constantly cutting the lawns.
They always recover under their own steam.

I leave my clippings on the lawn through laziness.

I don't mow mine, but when I did I never used the catcher.

You have a lawn 3 foot high then?

Nope, Kikuyu never gets that high. a foot a most.

Fancy looking grass:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:S...andestinum.jpg

Yeah, it's a ****ing aggressive grass, looks pretty
good if you keep mowing it. It's a runner grass.

A foot is still rather long. Don't people call you a hermit?

No one can see it in the backyard and I don't give a
flying red **** what anyone thinks about anything.

Or do you hire a gardener?

Nope, a lawnmower either.

No point in wasting your time carting up to the dump etc.

Don't you have a wheely bin for garden refuse?

Nope. One for non recyclable garbage
and other for recyclable garbage.

3rd world country. I have 5 different collections for stuff.

Mindlessly stupidly over complicated. You lot are
paying for that stupidly over complicated stupidity.

I'm not convinced they fertilise MY lawn,

Corse it does, there is nothing else for it to do.

they probably blow away by the time they've rotted.

Nope, not on any lawn I have ever observed. The park next
to my house is mown with a ****ing great tractor which
always leaves the clippings on the mown grass. Even when
its been a long time since the previous mow and there is
lots of visible clippings on the mown grass, it doesn't stay
there for more than a few days even when there is no wind.

Everything else blows around, like tree leaves.

Nope, lawn clippings don't. They fall down between the
blades of grass that are still there after the mowing.

Possibly.

Absolutely certainly.

My neighbour's always moaning she gets mine.

That's stuff that is chucked into her place by the mower.

Possibly, I use a flymo.

Absolutely certainly.