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No Mow May

No Mow May. Is it a Hoax?

"No Mow May" is an environmental initiative that encourages homeowners and landowners to refrain from mowing their lawns for the entire month of May.

This movement aims to support biodiversity by allowing wildflowers and native plants to grow freely, providing essential habitats and food sources for pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and other insects.

Promoting or observing this for managed and well cared for lawns is a contradiction. If you manage or plan to manage your lawn so that it is a beautiful sea of striped green from which the remaining garden emanates, then you shouldn’t have any weeds (native plants), so there are no benefits and several disadvantages to not mowing for a whole month.

If you don’t manage the lawn and it is full of weeds then read on.

Argument for ‘No Mow May’:

  • Biodiversity: Allowing grasses and wildflowers to grow provides food and shelter for various insects, birds and small mammals.
  • Pollinator Support: Wildflowers are essential for pollinators, aiding in the reproduction of plants and maintaining healthy ecosystems.
  • Reduced Lawn Maintenance: Taking a break from regular mowing in May can save time, effort and resources spent on lawn maintenance.
  • Environmental Awareness: It raises awareness about the importance of supporting local biodiversity and the role of individual actions in preserving ecosystems.

 Argument against ‘No mow May’:

  • Biodiversity: It is highly unlikely birds and small mammals will set up home in your lawn and as seeds take longer than a month to form - they won't feed from it either. The best you can hope for is a few flies, bees, wasps, butterflies and moths for about 2 weeks as the weeds flower once mowing stops.
  • Pollinator Support: Is a few weeks of flowering weeds going to be of much benefit? And if it does you're then going to remove it by mowing 4 weeks disrupting their lives by the mass removal of a food source!
  • Reduced Lawn Maintenance: You will have saved yourself perhaps 2 or 3 lots of mowing. You will then have an unruly, long, possibly wet lawn to cut which will take much longer to cut than the mowing savings. In addition, the lawn will be yellow for a few weeks after mowing!
  • Environmental Awareness: Really!? Awareness without benefit is not very productive.

In Summary

If the argument for ‘No Mow May’ is worthwhile, then do it properly and convert part of your lawn to a meadow requiring just 2 to 3 cuts a year. Then, care for the remaining lawn properly and enjoy the beauty of both. Top marks to you if you do. And if you do, send some pictures, please.