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by QuarterReptile 1564 days ago
When I see a picture like this, I wonder what everyone else is doing. This picture would be the result of extreme lawn care at my house...

I normally don't cut the grass until it's long enough that I can pick the flowers there and bring them inside (monthly?)

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In that particular city, monthly wouldn't fly. The grass would be nearly 8 inches to a foot tall, which means mice, snakes, mosquitoes, ticks, you name it.

Though it's really just the grass and dandelions that grow tall. If I had my way, I'd kill all the grass and just throw out wild violets and clover. So much prettier, and requires way less maintenance.

Bunnies can keep the grass quite short.
Rabbits don’t mow the lawn, they chew holes into it.
I move the guinea pig run across our lawn. Once they've cut it down "enough" I move it, so that it overlaps slightly. The wild bunnies do help. It's funny when they look at each other. Cavies inside the run, bunny outside, all of them chewing.
With chickens inside, this would be called a "chicken tractor." We have chickens, but they free-range for the most part, until they're locked out of the garden. They don't chew the grass, but do eat lots of other things. (And some plants, hence being locked out the garden for summer.)
We have very few rabbits around me. I've heard it's because the nearby golf course provides space for foxes. Otherwise I imagine they'd struggle with all the backyard fences.

My real goal is to provide a maximally inhospitable environment for cockroaches of all sizes.