I have for the first time heard about the No Mow Day movement.
It is not a comment practice in the USA and I have never heard of this until a user talked about it.
It is a movement that we fully understand, and even in the area that I live in it will be a hard thing to implement, we think that it is ok not to mow the lawn for May.
Although here we are trying to put on year-round strategies by creating specific gardens and spaces for the pollinators.
Spraying compost into those areas and your lawn will make the topsoil more resilient and help the biodiversity and biology to develop.
@compost We have defined islands of no mow areas in our garden and it gives a nice visual effect. These areas are no mow all year long. I have the feeling that we have more crickets and other beautiful friends like this one since then and, it gives a much higher resilience against dry periods.
Nice picture. Here we stand for a year-round strategy. We are surrounded by a lot of conventional farming so we think that biology needs a break from the chemicals used by agriculture.
Anything that disrupts the "perfect lawn" mindset is probably a plus, but keep in mind that in North America, a lot of our common lawn weeds are non-native and our local insects didn't evolve with them and generally can't use them. No Mow May works better in some places than others. Where I live, it's not much help to #pollinators, so I'm trying to gradually replace lawn with #NativePlants.
@compost@ClimateJenny@_noelamac_ grass is not a climate friendly "crop" to cultivate in most places they are grown, and keeping well manicured lawns is not helping the climate lmao what?
@itsmeholland@compost@ClimateJenny@_noelamac_ When I was a kid, my neighbours had a "lawn" of clover because their lot was large and very hilly -- they would never be able to mow it. Stays short, stays green, looks great.
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