So who will be the first one? There is a competition here with the neighbours, secret and unspoken- as nobody wants to be the first one!
Our grass is a bit wild, defo not a lawn in the British sense - given up fighting the weeds - much better for the bees!
Anyway, it's getting too high, and with rain forecast for next week, I think tomorrow will be the day numero uno 2012.
And nobody here will mind it is a Sunday, as long as we start after 10am - hurrah.

I don't have the lawn to cut but just tossed some old plants, does that count?

Enjoy the smell of freshly mowed lawn..hmmm.

Sorry already cut mine a week ago and need to cut it again this weekend, I guess that dunger I threw out a few weeks ago is really working!!

I miss having a garden. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I used to love cutting the grass and making things look pretty, then sitting outside with a glass of chilled white, admiring my hard work. Sigh!

Aggh - 'there is a price to pay for everything' said my Mum 'you pick your price' and she was right. We are retired and have chosen to live out in the sticks in a very old house = space and garden. Some would hate it - but for us it is just right.

Well, I'm just off to cut mine now - very necessary, but a shame in a way as there are so many lovely wild flowers scattered all over - but if I leave it much longer it will be too heavy, and no doubt more rain is coming. Happy mowing everyone!!!

Did ours on Thursday ( or rather T did). Dandelions have grown pretty fast so it's looking very yellow again now.

just finished ours - time for a wee bath and a large vodka tonic :-)

I am in the UK at present - wind/rain/cold/miserable.

No grass cutting going on here

Mrs. D has already cut ours twice at least. Had she not we would have had to trek through it with a machete....

Oh has done it, not too short for the first cut - it does look a lot better.

BTW who is the gardener in your household ? I do all the weeding, planting, designing, pruning, etc - so I suppose I am head gardener. OH is the sous gardener, cuts the grass and a bit of strimming once in a blue moon.

The closest thing to gardening hubby is allowed to do is put the green can at the street for collection. Some years ago he decided to take the trimmer to the grass.

My son has cut the grass for the third time already yesterday. Never heard a lawn mower here on a Sunday, hopefully never will.

Done mine twice already .... but it's all new as of last autumn, so trying to encourage fresh growth.
Powered up the old 2-stroke today and strimmed the bank from the "lawn" down to the street, and pulled out loads of weeds, although I need coverage to hold the dirt together.

I would like to know if anyone has used the "vertikutierer."

That's next on my project list.

I think OH first cut the grass way back in March...

The Lawn Polizei start sharpening their note-writing pencils around St. Joseph's day; woe betide the hapless homeowner whose lawn fails to meet community standards!





OH mows the lawn, does the tree trimming and wood cutting, the veggie patch tilling, puts up fences, does the stone work, builds things (whether I need them or not ) - anything requiring power tools. He loves his power tools. And he loves projects that require the purchase of even more power tools.

I do the planting.

The dogs then re-arrange what I have planted.

As Mrs. D pointed out, I used the strimmer once and was immediately sent to the penalty box....

After that I became a "worried husband"....(worth its own thread)

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OH cuts the grass and that's it. Now he's trained our son to do the grass he'll probably be excused from that now too.

Like Snoopy my OH is banned from gardening after an incident several years ago when he thought he was being helpful and weeded a patch of garden in our newly built house but actually pulled up all the bulbs I'd planted in the autumn. to be fair to him he was trying to help as we had a new baby at the time and he thought they looked like grass.

I haven't let him touch anything other than the lawn mower or leaf blower since then as he really hasn't got a clue when it comes to gardening.

A strimmer in a man's hands is like a weapon of mass destruction

The OH shaves h... I mean mows the lawn regularly!