Product Thursday
If you start talking to my husband about mowing the grass, chances are he is going to rave about his push mower.
The trusty circular mower.
I don’t mean one that you fill with gas and push around the yard. I mean the circular blade that makes the funny sound as you push it along. Row after row he pushes that mower. And when the boys have to use it, they complain and wish we had a gas-powered lawn mower.
But that ain’t going to happen.
He really likes using this mower, loves the fact that it gives good exercise when he has been sitting at a computer all day.
When it is time to mow, all he has to do is get his trusty craftsmanpush mower out of the garage. There is no need to fill it with gas. His energy propels the mower forward. It is a good thing we have a small yard.
Allof this is a part of his lawncare philosophy. Keep the grass at least three inches long to promote good root growth. Don’t use fertilizer or weed & feed or any lawn care product.
Perhaps that makes us crazy green people. But when you look at my lawn you will not see brown patched that were over-fertilized and now has burned roots.
Do you have any green lawncare practices?
Notes from Rumbly Cottage 
We use the stinky, gas-guzzling push mower. Definitely not green 😦
Ugh. We have a push mower – gas powered but not automatic. (Or whatever you call it when it moves forward on its’ own.)
How fast does he have to walk to get the blades moving fast enough to cut?
My lawn mowing obsession is going in a different direction each time I mow the lawn. If I go side to side one week, the next week I’ll go up and down. The up/down kills me. Thankfully, this week I’ll be going side to side! Woo hoo!
Obsessed with changing every week. *sigh*
He walks at a regular pace. But then again he is not going for a crisp lawn. He sets theblades for a length of three inches.
We follow the same practice: mow it long, let it go dormant under drought conditions, and never put anything but compost on it. We call it our “liberty lawn,” because it frees up lots of our time and money for other things, and it’s free from petrochemicals (fertilizers and pesticides as well as gasoline).
People-powered push mowers rock! 🙂
I water my flowers in containers just about every day but not the grass.
Oh, yes — the planting beds get watered at least once a week unless we have a good, steady, soaking rain, and the containers get it pretty much daily. But the lawn — never! 🙂
Must be fun in this heat. We have a third of an acre so a rider is necessary.
We have a small lot and the grass is going dormant. Too, too hot.