{"id":2909,"date":"2017-05-02T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:40:20","slug":"it-is-too-early-to-start-mowing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2017\/05\/02\/it-is-too-early-to-start-mowing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It is too early to start mowing"},"content":{"rendered":"
As I was sitting outside soaking in the magical spring weather, I heard the sound of a lawnmower. The first thing came to my mind was, \u201cShit, not already!\u201d I surveyed our lawn, already a beautiful lush green, and decided that it wasn\u2019t that high yet. What is wrong with these people! It is the\u00a0end of April and still cool in the evening. It can wait.<\/header>\n
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A week later, I heard the lawnmower again. The sound makes me very anxious, because once I start mowing; my life is committed to mowing 3 hours a week, every week until the fall (we have a rather large lawn, unfortunately). That\u2019s a lot of time and fossil fuels (we have too much lawn for a push-reel mower) committed to keeping the lawn shorter than 4 inches tall. So of course, I start thinking of reasons why I should and can put mowing off. The first reason that came to mind seemed very reasonable. Mike did not check out the mower to make sure it is in good working condition. Therefore, it really didn\u2019t make sense for me to start it up, because I couldn\u2019t fix it, if it needed fixing. Heaven forbid if it broke while I was mowing.<\/p>\n

A couple of days later, I heard the same lawnmower again. This time I noticed the beautiful buds on the Redbud tree, they were\u00a0starting to open up. Then I surveyed the lawn for violet ~ there were starting to emerge too.\u00a0Well, that was a no brainer and my best excuse for not mowing. There is no reason to mow a lawn until after the violets have been harvested from the lawn for at least five or more salads. Sure, I can go into the woods to harvest them, but nothing is better than harvesting flowers and herbs from your lawn. And you cannot harvest flowers and herbs after you have mowed over them, yuck! So folks, I have the best reason (besides using fossil fuels) for not mowing our lawn for a little while longer. I need to harvest my \u201clawn\u201d first. It\u2019s good to be a forager!<\/p>\n

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My first spring salad of the year\u00a0~ now that\u2019s the perfect reason to not mow the lawn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n