Mo’ Free Time With Mow-Free Lawns
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: energy, home, time

I can count on one finger the number of people I know who find any sort of enjoyment in mowing their lawns. Yeah, that person is me, and that’s because I have a tiny lawn that I mow with a push reel mower. It’s quick, quiet, and quite a workout!
As for the rest of you lawn haters, put down that gas mower and check out these alternatives to your weekly yard march.
- “No-mow” grass formulas. While science is still a few years away from cranking out no-grow varieties of every grass, there are already some special seed blends that’ll greatly reduce your landscaping labors. Prarier Nursery’s No Mow Lawn Mix promises to reduce your mowing to just once or twice a year, while Fleur de Lawn features adorable pink flowers that will attract birds and possibly hot women.
- Native grasses. Switch to native short grasses and you can toss out those fertilizers and pesticides.
- Clovers all overs. Contrary to popular belief, clovers are not weeds. Instead, they’re short-growing, don’t need fertilizer, smell great, and are soft on the feet. Plus I hear they attract leprechauns.
- Artificial “turf” grass. You don’t need to be a football or golf fan to appreciate the low maintenance requirements of synthetic turf. Putting green not included.

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Mercedes
June 5th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Where I work (lowes) at we just started selling the synth lawn stuff; when I walk up to the display it looks a little too bright (some of the samples) but from a distance it looks ok. When I was in las vegas there was a hotel complex with synthetic lawn and it looked really good and easy to maintain. Now here in arizona that might help in saving on the water bill for maintaining a lawn where it really isn’t meant to be. Or you can do as we have done and place colored pebbles and plain pebbles on the ground. No upkeeps and looks better than dirt plus it sort of stops weeds in those areas.
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Stephanie @ PoorerThanYou
June 5th, 2007 at 8:15 am
You can add me to your list of people that loves mowing. My family owns a 6-acre lot, about 4 acres of which are mowable (the rest is woods). I inherited from my father an intense love of spending as much time as possible zipping around on the John Deere, mowing areas of the lawn that my mother insists don’t even need to be mowed. I get upset when it rains, because then I can’t mow until it dries up again.
The sad part is, I’m not even kidding. Next month we’ll move to suburbia, and I’ll have less than an acre to mow, and a push mower, and I’ll be devastated.
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Clever Dude
June 5th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Actually, we haven’t needed to mow our grass for about 2 weeks now. There’s a few sprouts higher than others, but for some reason it’s all stopped growing.
I’d like to just use a manual mower, but I really don’t feel like raking up all that stuff. I can just throw some gas in our mower and chop it down like a maniacal, uh, maniac. Oh, and all our mowers have been free anyway. It’ll be a couple more years till our gas expenditure reaches what you paid for a new manual mower, but I can’t argue against the environmental impact of gas engines.
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This Little Piggy
June 5th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I don’t know that I LOVE to mow, but I like to. I have a larger city lot so on my riding mower it only takes about 25 minutes to mow and weedeat.
I would like to put in a putting green though. But I think that would increase my mowing time to keep it short.
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Jonathan
June 9th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Nope, I got yelled at to mow the lawn too many times as a kid. But I like having a lawn, so if they have some good no-mow stuff, I’d probably buy it. Right now I have so little grass I couldn’t even make a putting green if I wanted to. I also have a manual push mower
Eco-friendly!
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Thomas
June 12th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
you forgot about goats,geese,a pony, lots of ways to have your lawn “taken care of”
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Plus6
June 16th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
If I lived in a dry desert I would definitely look into the synthetic options. I live in Florida so it rains plenty here for standard grass. I see people with the smaller lots using the manual mowers and would love to go that route if I move to a smaller urban lot (which is something I am looking into).
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Steve Morris
June 21st, 2009 at 3:32 am
Not sure if fake grass is the way to go just to get an excuse not to have a lawnmower or do some work . Grass contributes to dealing with the CO2 in the air (as all plants do) so a trend in fake lawns may in the long term be bad for the environment. if we really want to be Eco friendly buy a goat they will deal with the grass as well as anything else you leave unattended.
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March 20th, 2010 at 1:38 am
Not sure if fake grass is the way to go just to get an excuse not to have a lawnmower or do some work . Grass contributes to dealing with the CO2 in the air (as all plants do) so a trend in fake lawns may in the long term be bad for the environment. if we really want to be Eco friendly buy a goat they will deal with the grass as well as anything else you leave unattended.
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Bronk
March 26th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
I love the small of freshly mowed lawn but not the smell of gas and exhaust fumes. I have a ¼ block and have 2 mowers one electric and the other a reel push mower. Both do a good job with a lot less noise. The reel mower is good exercise; just don’t let the lawn get to thick. They both are friendlier environmentally than gas mowers.
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Kostas
May 17th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Finally, someone else who uses a manual push reel mower! It may be primitive, but gets the job done with no cash out of pocket for gas. Of course if you have a large area to mow or suffer from a respiratory disorder it might not be the method of choice
Thank you for sharing, Nick.
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