Rewilding My Lot

The Bermudagrass in my front and side yards is not dead, but during the summer drought it turned brown and stopped growing. Most of the grass is short from being mown at the beginning of the summer, but there was one area where sunflowers had been growing beside the house and I hadn’t mown there since about March so the grass was several inches long.

I knew my little mower wouldn’t be able to manage what was in effect a small hay meadow, so I took my trimmer to it instead. Being a good neighbor (i.e., following the HOA rules!), I waited until 8am to start, by which time the morning sun had passed over the houses across the street.