GARDENING
Cutting Tall Grass
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Gardening
Cutting Tall Grass
Smaller tasks
LAWN MOWING
High grass
If you let nature unfold freely and have the right conditions, your garden will quickly become a small jungle! Grass can easily reach more than 1 meter in height and although all this biodiversity is beautiful and great for wildlife, it is also a challenge.
The breaks between mowing should not be too short as the wildflowers need time to take root, grow and bloom before they provide the important nutrition for wildlife. But you can’t pause mowing for very long before the lawnmower gives up and special equipment is needed.
We have the equipment to cut the tall grass. Even the really tall grass! We also make sure that the clippings are removed afterwards, as otherwise they will provide nutrients to the soil, which the wildflowers do not thrive with.
Differential mowing, also known as mosaic mowing, involves dividing an area into fields that are mowed at different times of the year, so that some of the grass is tall when others are mowed. This will ensure that insects in the treated fields survive the mowing and that flowering herbs are always present for them.
By reducing mowing in selected areas, we give wild herbs the opportunity to bloom and thus be an important food source for bees, butterflies and other insects. Removing nutrients from the soil promotes biodiversity. Which we do when we mow the grass and remove the clippings.
Where the grass is allowed to grow and where the grass continues to be mowed frequently depends on the individual area. On larger areas where the area is not used for anything specific, paths are mowed so that people can still move around there. However, nature cannot be allowed to unfold freely where there should be space for ball games, good overview conditions and the like. It is therefore good to have a plan for when to mow which areas.
Some would say that a wild garden should be allowed to be completely alone. And thus also claim that there is never a right time to mow the tall grass. However, there are challenges in letting the grass grow completely freely.
When the grass reaches a certain height, it will often lie down and suffocate everything else. Like a blanket, it will lie over the ground and suffocate both itself! and everything else. If it is not removed, it will rot and start to smell.
Nature is aggressive! And it is not good for diversity, biodiversity to let the strongest species achieve too much dominance. When a group, a species gets a really good grip, it will begin to dominate. If you let nature completely take care of itself in your garden, you will often experience that it develops into being dominated by a few species.
By getting the grass completely gone and getting to the bottom, you strengthen biodiversity and diversity. We can come by and remove the grass completely in one go, or we can make a plan for how best to mow the grass areas in your particular garden.
