Caraka wrote:Yesterday my patience also ran out. For me it was my backyard, the grass was getting far to long, and by then I have had enough of that ----. Determined to tell the lawn something about not growing wild I went with stiff steps directly to my garage for my big lawnmower. I fired it up, and started to cut the "#$%&! grass, the whole 100 square meter, so you could say I was not happy about the situation. It always takes time. Time I could have used on other stuff. Anyway, about halfway out in the grass cutting, and in what might be called a mistaken attempt to keep the mind calm. I realized that I actually never ever had changed the way I cut my grass, not for years, well, I'm a buddhist ain't I? So I figured I could try to changed the way I cut it! You know. Starting with the beginning, then halfway out, jumping right to the end, for then go backwards to the middle again to finish…
Amazingly enough, nothing happened. No change in me. The grass was just cut, and it was really unsatisfactory knowing that this grass would never stay cut. It will grow back. Getting long again, and then I might have to cut it all over again. Oh, thou situation..
But, I do hope that I one day, it might not even be in this life, I will just let the grass grow freely, letting it get as long as it self want. Wishing it happy conditions. Cause by then I would not mind anymore, and I would not mind having lawnmower go rust away in my garage. For sooner or later I suspect the grass will grow so high, getting so heavy, that it will just fall to the ground by it self.
Best wishes.
Lol, I loved your story!
That's where I am for most of the year...
I do not use fertilizer anymore, only rarely, and the lawn turned into an amazing flower meadow. I cut it the first time after most of the flowers are gone, until then the garden belongs to itsself and it's animals....and then I cut short again whenever it needs it. Lots of soft moss in it...
spares me a lot of time and nerves to just let nature be what it wan't to be.
English lawn? Who said I need that? Along with all the costs? It's a whole biz branch taht lives of telling me I need an english lawn.
Children love natural gardens, btw, and I also don't spray weed sprays, as they are a health risk.
Just like insecticides.
If they weren't, you could stir em in your yogurt, but you can't.
Here's the blue phase of my *lawn*!
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