"No Mow May"

Yep thats a thing.

This is going to boil down to whats in the contract.

Sounds like your $50 mow just turned into $100.

Sounds like another ploy from the greenie weenies to stop people from using gas for a little while at least. SMH

Ridin' Green said:

Sounds like another ploy from the greenie weenies to stop people from using gas for a little while at least. SMH

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I agree with that. Also, when I took my Applicator's class years ago, there was much discussion about the bees and spraying. Do the applicator's wait too?

Derwood said:

I agree with that. Also, when I took my Applicator's class years ago, there was much discussion about the bees and spraying. Do the applicator's wait too?

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Applicators caught applying during May will be drawn and quartered or tar and feathered. Applicators choice.

Sounds more like "No mow YOU no mo."

NEXT!

I'm okay with it as long as they are pre-paying for the season.

Holy crap and I thought we had problems and crazy customers with insane requests.

I'm OK with people doing this if that makes them feel better about themselves. Knock your socks off. Don't mow. Build little bee feeders if that's what you think will save the earth.
The problem is when these people think they have the right to FORCE everyone else to play along.

That's where we part ways and I lose interest in doing "good things" - you are now the enemy of freedom and the enemy of me.

I planted a little pollinator habitat this year. Still mowing my grass though.

Who is responsible for picking up all the dead rabbits, that built nest in the high grass, after the 1st mow in June?

oqueoque said:

Who is responsible for picking up all the dead rabbits, that built nest in the high grass, after the 1st mow in June?

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They will get mulched. No pick up needed.

It's being promoted around here quite a bit. When it's ready to cut, I'll cut it. I do keep areas for bees though and thinking of adding more areas with wildflowers on our property that have something flowering pretty much spring, summer, fall.

Are we supposed to hold formal memorial services for the slow bees that don't move in time and get mulched by the mower?

I can throw a pair of dress shoes in the truck just in case.

Guys this is going to catch up with you all sooner or later, looking at it positively and planning to be able to change your systems to adapt is the way forward. We would have lost our largest contracts if we had not moved with the times. Large companies are willing to spend to be seen to be compliant so if you are ready then you can reap the profits. We won a serious contract this year because we were part of the pollinator programme and the other contractors bidding against us were not. food for thought.

Not happening in my area. Tics that carry Lyme Disease are a serious problem here and only get worse w long grass.

Most people on this forum won't be affected by this happy horsecrap.

How many of you work for people with a lawn full of dandelions and clover?

Of the ones who DO, are the lawns that way because the homeowner wants a happy habitat for fuzzy bees, or because they are cheap/don't give a crap what their lawn looks like?

There's 5 people out of 5 thousand who are interested in this - and they think that their 5' square patch of weeds and flowers is going to save the earth. It's like peeing in the ocean to raise the water level.

OakNut said:

I'm OK with people doing this if that makes them feel better about themselves. Knock your socks off. Don't mow. Build little bee feeders if that's what you think will save the earth.
The problem is when these people think they have the right to FORCE everyone else to play along.

That's where we part ways and I lose interest in doing "good things" - you are now the enemy of freedom and the enemy of me.

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Good grief. I didn’t read that as the customer forcing anything on the contractor. She made a simple request of the contractor. If he doesn’t want to abide by her request, he should tell her so and let her find another contractor that will make the adjustment. How some people can make things so difficult and add so much drama to a request is beyond comprehension.
“…enemy of freedom and the enemy of me.”
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Wow.