my goal is to someday have a yard that needs no mowing.

Ta-dah! [link]

You can see it how gorgeous this stuff is in the picture I took of a certain plot at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. [link]

Just came back from lunch with the lovely and athletic Sparky! Yay! Now I'm vacillating between napping and being productive. I started going through loose papers earlier this morning in an attempt to corral all the various health receipts I'm going to need for my tax return. It's a huge job because of the construction that's been going on in the house all this year. People not me have moved things and moved things and moved things. I don't know where anything is.

Hmmmm... I don't think I have enought lawn for that area - maybe in the side yard one day ( which has no lawn - just chips). but I wonder how it would stand up to my sisters dogs in pacifica...

MOWING: No Mow does not require mowing. Do not mow fully mature No Mow. To maintain traditional stand of grass, No Mow should be mowed at 2"- 2 1/2". Avoid scalping.

Um, huh? I guess you can mow it when it's young, but don't mow it when it's older?

Or maybe I need a nap. I'll read it again later.

That was confusing to me too, Daniel. I think you interpreted it right, though.

No, I think they're saying that if you don't want the wavy effect, then you need to mow before it gets past that length. That's how I read it, anyhow.

I thought that was what Daniel was saying. If it's going to be mown, it has to be mown when young. They don't want people "scalping" it after it's grown large.

The stuff is really beautiful. And it's really cushy to walk on. If you put a picnic blanket on it, it'd be the most comfortable picnic you'd ever had on the ground.

Spidra, are you putting it in at your place?

My no-mow lawn solution is to get rid of the grass.

I'm lobbying for doing so. I really hope I can. Before I knew what kind of grass it was, I went to the cemetery and looked for seed. I don't know whether it's due to the species possibly not seeding much or whether I came at the wrong time, but there wasn't all that much seed to be had. I took what I could and put it in a pot at home and some of it has sprouted. My plan was to slowly convert the backyard bit by bit, if financial constraints made me have to do it that way.

My lawn is in back. The currently landscaping reduces the amount of lawn but hasn't gotten rid of it. I have a deck in back and would like to be able to use that area as a stage at times, which means having some open space the audience can congregate on. The front yard is almost entirely juniper hedge. It's low maintenance at least. As I get more money for it, I'll do edible landscaping there, choosing fruits Americans aren't as familiar with so I won't have a big problem with trespassing (I live on a major street and my 'hood isn't the safest).

Wow, that no-mow looks pretty. I wonder if it would tolerate our weather. We don't have any soft grass here, just super tough hardy stuff. When I visit up north I love to run barefoot in the soft grass.

Here's another company with a different mix of fescue. They have a map showing what range it can be grown in. [link]

It's definitely not a seriscaping kind of grass. It needs water. I plan on figuring out a way to pump the graywater from the tub into the garden.