No mow May

[malumbu]

Hopefully some of you are up for this.  I planted a small meadow a few years ago, hard work on these heavy clay soils.  The start is planting yellow rattle, but I've spent tens of pounds on seeds and plugs over the years and only a few species are successful - ox eye daisy, purple and white clover, with the daisies, buttercups and dandelions that many consider weeds.

It's going to be tough doing MMM as I have not mowed over much of the lawn this year, so it will need one hell of a trim in June. Apart from the meadow that is cut three times a year by hand.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

 

No mow May has been great in past years - so many daisies and other flowers instead of sterile green grass. I think Dulwich Estate has been doing it recently 👏 👏 

[malumbu]

Camberwell Old Cemetery weren't this morning, oddly out with strimmers near the meadow area;,but.... It's generally a haven for wildlife so can be forgiven 😊

[Sue]

2 hours ago, malumbu said:

Hopefully some of you are up for this.  I planted a small meadow a few years ago, hard work on these heavy clay soils.  The start is planting yellow rattle, but I've spent tens of pounds on seeds and plugs over the years and only a few species are successful - ox eye daisy, purple and white clover, with the daisies, buttercups and dandelions that many consider weeds.

It's going to be tough doing MMM as I have not mowed over much of the lawn this year, so it will need one hell of a trim in June. Apart from the meadow that is cut three times a year by hand.

You are lucky to have such a big garden!

I am rethinking my tiny garden to have more wild flowers - or at least to let more of them stay rather than "weeding" them out (I'm looking at you, dandelions and Spanish bluebells) or but there's no way it is big enough to have a meadow! 

Easy to do No Mow May though, as there's nothing to mow!

[intexasatthe moment]

I'm watching a neighbours lawn where the grass is hourly increasing in height .Wondering how on earth they are going to tackle cutting it .

[Angelina]

mine's the same - use shears, then mow, but I only do a part of the lawn - the rest is covered in daisies, violets and other flowers, so I leave it.

I have to be very careful though - we have slow worms 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Angelina