the zen of mowing your lawn

[mattkime]

If I owned a lawn I'd likely be the obnoxious neighbor that let's it grow wild - which is not to say that it would be uncared for, just that I wouldn't invest time and resources in a vast green expanse that was only visited by lawn care equipment.

[Grateful11]

Well you could mow it the wife and son's new mower, nothing but fresh filtered air inside the cab. With a 110" cut doesn't take long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIR1kMEZ0Q&feature=share&list=UUPAR4rxGJNYlQIu7snVQ2nw&index=2

[Speedy]

Show-off!

Grateful11 wrote:
Well you could mow it the wife and son's new mower, nothing but fresh filtered air inside the cab. With a 110" cut doesn't take long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIR1kMEZ0Q&feature=share&list=UUPAR4rxGJNYlQIu7snVQ2nw&index=2

[decay]

my old roommate got a Robomow

(this is not his video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2_AIWFO77s

[Article Accelerator]

dotman wrote: so why do you mow your lawn

Because it feels good when I stop.

[OWC Jamie]

dig it up and plant tomatoes

[Speedy]

billb wrote:
dig it up and plant tomatoes

Someday. Tomato seeds are not digested while going through the human digestive tract. After processing sewage in treatment plants, the solids are spread on farmers' fields where tomatoes will often grow if the field is left fallow.

[mrlynn]

I like mowing; I hate exercising for its own sake, but don't mind if I have the sense I'm actually accomplishing something. Been mowing since I was 10 or so. Nowadays all I have is a 22" push mower, but that gets me out mowing for half an hour at a time, maybe three times a week (separate yards) this time of year.

Lawns are good for kids to play on. My daughter and her husband bought a house in the woods, and don't have a lawn, which she regrets. On the other hand, they have trees, mud, and a zip line.

Some of our lawn area is being overtaken by violets, which serve as a sort of ground cover. I don't mind, really. While I like mowing, I have no interest in 'lawn care'. I mow around the buttercups and the Indian Paintbrushes, too.

/Mr Lynn

[DP]

Myrtle is a great ground cover. Couldn't grow grass on our easement so...

[Lux Interior]

Speedy wrote:
Tomato seeds are not digested while going through the human digestive tract. After processing sewage in treatment plants, the solids are spread on farmers' fields where tomatoes will often grow if the field is left fallow.

A scatological version of Johnny Appleseed.