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On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:39:51 +0100, Bod
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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
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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
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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.
Wouldn't you prefer to see a nice flat lawn?
Sure, if there was some completely automatic
lawnmower I could just buy and turn on.
But not if I have to mow the ****ing
thing every week except in winter.
Why are you so bloody lazy?
Unlike you, I have much better things to do with my time.
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.
No, we're sorting it so we don't have to pay them to do so .
You pay for 5 different collections.
We arent stupid enough to pay anyone to sort
what shows up in the 2 collections we have.
They have to sort it at their end, or it can't be recycled.
Yep, we arent stupid enough to recycle that ****.
Complete waste of time and money.
Anyway most of the council tax is spent on other things:
Irrelevant, no point in wasting any on **** like that.
Education of other people's little ****s: 29%
Not with ours, the council doesn't do
education, the state and federal govt do.
Housing those who are too lazy to get a job: 23%
Not with ours, the council doesn't do housing, the state govt does.
Social workers whatever they do: 18%
Not with ours, the council doesn't do social
workers, the state and federal govt does.
Cultural and Leisure services (ugh!): 8%
Not with ours, the council doesn't do
those, the state and federal govt does.
--- Environmental Services (including bins): 3% ---
Dunno what the percentage is here, likely about the same.
Other bits and pieces: 19%
The bulk of ours goes on roads, streets,
other stuff like swimming pools etc.
http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/document/3063.pdf
Stupid way to do things.
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.
How can you be sure, have you stood there and watched?
I've looked at it after it has been mowed. There are no cuttings
visible except when it hasn't been mowed for weeks before cutting.
And even then, it doesn't stay visible for long, a week at most
before its all disappeared into the stuff left after the mowing.
But it could have blown away,
I know it hasn't. It doesn't move when its windy. Its
pretty big pieces when it hasn't been mowed for weeks.
then it wouldn't be visible either.