Well, I used to mow my lawn myself, but this year, we made the choice to spend a few bucks in the name of quality family time and have someone do it. It wasn't an easy choice for me at first because I actually enjoy lawn care. I'd strap on my iPod shuffle and pick the direction I was going to mow that week and off I'd go. When I was finished, I'd open up a cold beer and look over the beautiful lawn that was mine and mine alone! But after the first few times that "Sunrise Landscaping" did our lawn, I realized it was a great choice. We were so busy with little league, going to the pool for swim lessons, vacations and other fun activities that I knew mowing the lawn would keep getting pushed back until the grass was way too long. At first they mowed it shorter than I liked it, but I asked the to do it a bit longer and they obliged. Now, every week, it gets done and my yard looks fantastic and healthy.

It has been an experiment that has seemed to work, however, as my kids get older, I will go back to doing it myself. Why cheat myself from an experience I so enjoy, right? But, in the meantime, it has worked out for all of us.

1) How often do you mow your yard?
It gets done weekly
2) What is your mowing season (what month to what month)?
Late April-Late October, but depends on what the season(s) have been like.
3) Do you mow your yard yourself, or have someone do it for you?
I hire somebody

It is about time to aerate for the fall. Yeah, I'll have them do that too.

I always thought that my wife would find mowing the yard sexy and want to jump my bones- you know, cause of the smell of sweaty grass and gasoline (very manly). When we bought our first house last year, I was grinning ear to ear when I first mowed the lawn. Unfortunately, she doesn't go for the smell of clorophyl and unleaded. Mowing the lawn isn't nearly as fun anymore.

I have no idea when I'm supposed to mow it now that Al Gore's prophecies are killing the polar bears... and my grass. Half the grass is dead, and the rest is growing in patches. Very confusing how to handle that.

1) How often do you mow your yard?
I should mow weekly, but it seems I don't get to it as often as I should. It has turned out that I mow about once every three or four weeks.
2) What is your mowing season (what month to what month)?
April to October
3) Do you mow your yard yourself, or have someone do it for you?
I mow and love it. I just wish I had more time to take care of it. Next season...

I wish I could mow.
Northern Kentucky is in an extreme drought and I haven't mowed in 3 months. I miss it a lot. All of us on our street just gave up on our lawns this year...we were watering everyday for hours, but it was still too hot & too dry. A bunch of us decided to throw in the towel together and try to hope for rain next year and spend the money we are saving from watering to have lawns treated, with the hopes they bounce back.

When our Kentucky Bluegrass does grow I usually mow our once every 6 days at 3 1/2 inches. It looks amazing.

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This year I have been living with a roommate at his house. We try our best to share the responsibilities pretty much on everything, so I figured I'd wait to let him cut the grass at 'his' house first before I jumped in the mix. Well it is now the end of summer and he didn't cut it once. Our front yard is really shady so the grass never once looked bad, but the back yard, WOW. It has now been cut, but I can't believe what it looked like. There really was only one spot that looked real bad because the back is shady too. I didn't really care though, I think that our dogs kind of liked it. They probably thought they had found a new land or something. My son and I never really went out there, we usually just go to the park if we want to play. So, my mowing season didn't last a single day this year (lucky me), we were trying to revert some of the global warming that we've contributed by allowing our grass to grow naturally. Theres a thought. If everyone would just let there grass grow freely, it would have a great impact on the global warming efforts. Right?

Plant a tree, and let your grass grow free.
Thats my new slogan.
CG
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Going a little off subject; it was snowing this morning (10-14-2007) on the high plain serengeti of Colorado south of Denver. No accumulation yet, just light flakege, but then again it's not dark yet either. Time to dust off the snow gear and shovels!

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Before I had kids I always wanted to tie a string to my self-propelled mower to a stake in the middle of the yard and tie the handle down to see if it turns into a Mow-a-matic! With kids and lots of shrapnel, I don't think this will ever happen. I do have a fenced-in-yard.
Bruce Cantrall, dad to 3!
Northeast Wisconsin at Home Dads (Green Bay)

I haven't mowed in about 2 weeks, and looking at my lawn you can really tell. Here in western Wisconsin I mow from April to Octoberish. In the spring / fall I should be mowing about twice a week, but it doesn't usually get done. I have an infant and a toddler at home and can't mow unless mom is home. That usually leaves the weekends and we did a lot of camoing this summer. So my lawn only got mowed about 3 to 4 times a month.

Dan