When to cut the grass and how deep?
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:21 pm
My back garden is only 35 feet long, but I've been letting it grow wild since last summer to see what species if any would colonise it. I had a minor success this week with visits from gatekeeper and meadow brown females with the latter laying eggs. Which leads me to the question in the thread title.
I remember talking to the farmer who helps manage the meadow at Buckland Wood near Taunton. he said he was instructed not to cut for hay until July 24th. So I propose to do the same, keeping a two foot wide central path short and strimming the remainder to about 3" deep. The spot where the meadow brown was laying was beneath a shrub so that will be safe.
Any suggestions?
Thanks..
I remember talking to the farmer who helps manage the meadow at Buckland Wood near Taunton. he said he was instructed not to cut for hay until July 24th. So I propose to do the same, keeping a two foot wide central path short and strimming the remainder to about 3" deep. The spot where the meadow brown was laying was beneath a shrub so that will be safe.
Any suggestions?
Thanks..