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Mow your lawn less often
By mowing less often, you give flowers and insects more space and help biodiversity in your own garden.
Description
What we find interesting:
A neatly mowed lawn may look neat, but it lacks life.
Mowing less often gives flowers like clover and daisies the chance to bloom, an important food source for bees and butterflies.
But the grass itself is also valuable: many insects nest in or under the lawn, such as wild bees, beetles, butterflies, or grasshoppers. By leaving your mower at home more often, you literally give all that life in your garden space.
3 more reasons to mow less often:
Mowing less often gives flowers like clover and daisies the chance to bloom, an important food source for bees and butterflies.
But the grass itself is also valuable: many insects nest in or under the lawn, such as wild bees, beetles, butterflies, or grasshoppers. By leaving your mower at home more often, you literally give all that life in your garden space.
3 more reasons to mow less often:
- You help restore nature in your own garden: Mowing less often contributes to greater biodiversity, which is especially important in private gardens.
- You have less work to do: Mowing less often saves time, fuel, and noise.
- Your grass becomes stronger: Longer grasses and herbs retain moisture better and are more drought-resistant.
Steps
- 1Start with one part of your garden: let a corner or strip grow longer.
- 2Do not mow again until the flowers have finished blooming, for example every few weeks or once a month.
- 3Use a hand mower or mow on a higher setting to protect ground dwellers.
- 4Leave the grass clippings for a few days for any insects that still want to escape.
- 5Combine with flower mixes or seed bombs for even more color and food in your grass.
