*nemo* said:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

Mowing is a sweaty job as it is, and you went and made it worse...

I think of it as excercise. I have to excercise anyway--might as well get
something useful done at the same time... No ride-on or self-propelled
for me! (No gasoline either--I use a cordless electric mower.) For me,
a lawn mowing takes the same amount of time as walking about 3-1/2
miles (with more upper-body work).

Pendant mode:
Both you *and* the grass suffered for it. Anything else good you do
for your lawn can be undone by improper mowing. (Mow at the
correct height, mow with sharp blades and mow often enough that
you aren't cutting off more than 1/3 the length of the blades.)

*nemo* wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

I usually wait a year, since it's usually dry in AZ. although this has
been a wet month, and I'm regretting not having fixed the riding mower
yet, it's starting to show it's age, the carb went kaput now that I've
fixed the blades and the battery.

Jim
proud owner of 4 acres of Arizona weeds

In article <nemo0037-CC9124.18243723082005@news1.west.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

Do what I did. Plant rocks.

I haven't mowed a lawn in 15 years.

In article <nemo0037-CC9124.18243723082005@news1.west.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

Do what I did. Plant rocks.

I haven't mowed a lawn in 15 years.

-chib

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:25:29 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

Did you know sugar cane was a
grass?...

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:25:29 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

I understand this.

It's not a tragedy, just hard work and a lot of raking. BUT, it's
good for the lawn. Your lawn will be thicker because you're 'topped'
the growing ends and they will split.

Every few months, lower your mower a notch and have at it. it'll
look like ***** but will come back thick and lust. Fertilize with
30/10/10. Grasses eat a lot of Nitrogen.

Did you know sugar cane was a
grass?... I wander...

The current problem with my lawn is some dog using it every night
as a cesspool. You know, pet owners that let their dog out at night to
relieve themselves so they won't have to pick up their *****. I've been
leaving Snicker's bar out on my lawn and they're gone every morning.
Chocolate makes dogs ***** uncontrollably. So my visual is the dog
going home and a few hours later crapping all over the owners house
and dragging its incontinent butt over the new white carpet.

Warlord Steve
BAAWA
www.sonic.net/~wooly

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:25:29 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

I understand this.

It's not a tragedy, just hard work and a lot of raking. BUT, it's
good for the lawn. Your lawn will be thicker because you're 'topped'
the growing ends and they will split.

Every few months, lower your mower a notch and have at it. it'll
look like ***** but will come back thick and lust. Fertilize with
30/10/10. Grasses eat a lot of Nitrogen. Did you know sugar cane was a
grass?... I wander...

The current problem with my lawn is some dog using it every night
as a cesspool. You know, pet owners that let their dog out at night to
relieve themselves so they won't have to pick up their *****. I've been
leaving Snicker's bar out on my lawn and they're gone every morning.
Chocolate makes dogs ***** uncontrollably. So my visual is the dog
going home and a few hours later crapping all over the owners house
and dragging its incontinent butt over the new white carpet.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:25:29 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

I understand this.

It's not a tragedy, just hard work and a lot of raking. BUT, it's
good for the lawn. Your lawn will be thicker because you're 'topped'
the growing ends and they will split.

Every few months, lower your mower a notch and have at it. it'll
look like ***** but will come back thick and lust. Fertilize with
30/10/10. Grasses eat a lot of Nitrogen. Did you know sugar cane was a
grass?... I wander...

The current problem with my lawn is some dog using it every night
as a cesspool. You know, pet owners that let their dog out at night to
relieve themselves so they won't have to pick up their *****. I've been
leaving Snicker's bar out on my lawn and they're gone every morning.
Chocolate makes dogs ***** uncontrollably. So my visual is the dog
going home and a few hours later crapping all over the owners house
and dragging its incontinent butt over the new white carpet.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:25:29 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

Oh, that's _nothing_. Once, I lived with a lesbian motorcyle
enthusiast with tattoos from one side of her body to the next and with
multiple body piercings in many diverse locations. For months and
months and months, she was going to get us a lawn mower "any day now".
I offered to get us one, she just kept saying nahhhh, that she has a
friend of a friend of a friend who can loan us one. Finally, when the
grass was no less than _THREE_ feet tall, she gets one. And _WHO_
gets to mow the lawn?

Hey, you do _NOT_ say no to a lesbian motorcycle enthusiast with
tattoos from one side of her body to the next and with multiple body
piercings in many diverse locations. That would just be plain
*crazy*.... Took three damn days for a yard that couldn't have been
much bigger than your average toaster oven, but I finally got it done.

Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet *nemo* (nemo0037
@earthlink.dieSPAM.net) made the light shine upon us with this:

A hard lesson learned -- never wait a full month between mowings!

Oh *****! My back yard is about a foot deep. The dogs love it. What do I
have to look forward to?

My dogs spend a lot of time on our forested hillside, and as a result I get
quite a few large rocks tumbling down onto the back lawn. My rotary mower
propelled a few through a few windows, to the tune of $300.00 and a severe
cut to the contractor we hired to replace them (it apparently wasn't severe
enough to file a lawsuit - who needs that *****?)

My front yard has a bunch of those long shoots growing out of it. It looks
really nice and disheveled. That's OK, nobody's trying to sell out within
view of my property.

So what did the lawnmower find?