How much lawn around your house?

I have about 1/2 an acre left that I havent reclaimed for garden space.I like to think of it as "grass clipping harvesting" rather than mowing. It's also my most consistant form of exercise.(push mower)

My husband pushes the push lawn mower for precisely one hour, starting near the house....where he ends is where the fence posts go! The lawn gives the kids a place to play and something to do now that they are older...they mow the lawn!

Not very much around my country house...maybe 1/2 acre...just enough to keep the bugs away. My town house has to be mowed & manicured & I Hate it.

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I do not want any lawn around the house at all,, but the grass keeps growing anyways.
Also have 8+acres of Pasture grass I am going to have to deal with this spring.
Do not have any thing mechanical on this place,, will need to find something before things start growing again.

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Sheep? Other grazing animals?

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We used to mow about 5 acres. Takes forever to go around all the trees and such, even with a tractor. New fence has reduced that to about 2 1/2 acres. We mow with 5' finish mower on back of JD 4600 and do the smaller stuff with neighbor's riding mower. I trim with push mower. Hubby refuses to weed eat anymore. Doesn't like the splattering of goose poop from my birds. They keep a lot trimmed down for us. Goats and horses love fresh grass trimmings from our yard.

I let the cows eat right up to the house. About 1 or 2 times a year I use the old Ford 600 tractor and bush hog to cut the tall spots where the cow chips lay and the cows won't eat. In the orchard and other areas off limits to the cows and too small to bush hog, I use a European sythe. On a good morning, I can sythe about 1/3 of an acre although it will look kinda lumpy. In Florida this has to be done before it gets light in the morning, otherwise the grass is too limp to cut and it's just too daggone hot out. The clippings become hay, mulch or compost depending on their quality.

In the past, I tried geese. They are cool until they get old enough to mate, then they more or less need to be cooked. They cut the grass too short (1/4"), and their bites are more painful than I expected. Also, think bugs are bad in the garden, wait til you see a goose shove a 16" tall maize plant down its throat and prance proudly away, roots dangling from its mouth, obscenities flowing from your mouth. Unless you have dozens of acres, I wouldn't suggest getting geese.

About an acre around the house and barn, but some of that is taken up with the garden. The lawn is surrounded by the horse pasture and I'm going to till a strip on the house side of the fence this year and plant wild flowers. I think it will look pretty and keep the horses from leaning on the fence. We have a 20hp John Deere garden tractor with a 54" mowing deck. I hate, no, loathe John Deere and will never, ever own another one.

Stacy

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Define lawn. lol
We have green patches of clover and weeds that I mow - can't call any of it lawn really. I keep "grass" paths through the field between the large beds and I keep those mowed too. I mow with a craftsman GT5000 we got last year - before that it was a reel mower and a weed whacker. I bag all the clippings for the various compost heaps - usually dump them all in the pickup and drive them out to the field that way because it saves alot of time. Takes most of an afternoon to get everything mowed.

Too much. It takes over five hours to mow with a rider. Luckily in August most of it burns up due to heat and lack of water. (insert evil laugh here)