So, we specifically don't touch our garden at all for the first 15 weeks, from the start of Spring. Some of our neighbors complained a bit, until we explained our rationale. While it may look a little unkept and untidy by most standards, our garden blossoms with the most incredible wild flowers for those few weeks, and with that comes an abundance of pollinators and small birds, it is like an oasis compared to our neighbors who only have manicured lawns. We then keep it nice and trimmed for the rest of the year, but you best be sure that for the whole of Spring, my garden is going to look a little wild and I love it!

Short mowed lawns are an ecological disaster. Those 'pests' that the comments are complaining about are native animals desperately clinging on to what tiny fragments of habitat remain available in built up areas. Without the bees, bugs and caterpillars, the whole food chain starts to crash and burn. Small birds need live food for their babies, and weed seeds as food to sustain them through the winter.

Time to grow a meadow for the insects

I'm cool until it's over a foot high and all weeds. Still not my business until it becomes a breeding ground for pests.

Mind your own yard!

I mow my lawn after the butterflies and bees are done feasting on all those lovely wildflowers. Three times a year seems about right.

I guess they’ve never heard of elderly/disabled people?? Otherwise, it’s reasonable to assume they won’t be mowing the lawn every single week, when they can hardly take a few steps with their walking aid (or perhaps not be able to walk at all) … SMH. I feel like entitled people are kinda disabled sometimes, though. 🤦‍♀️🙄

What is it with you Americans and your obsession with mowing grass? Let it grow a bit, attract wildlife.

I'd rototill the whole yard and plant a wildflower garden. With endangered and/or rare plants.

If you are not volunteering to do the job, you can get bent

this seems like it deserves an answer like this. I'm sorry my yard is causing so much trouble. My dear X is dying a from Y (pick a slow painful disease). I'm spending all my time on the phones with doctors, specialists, hospice and insurance companies. It's taking a terrible toll on me and child/spouse/dad whoever. Please feel free to mow our property when you think it's in need of it. I would really appreciate the help at this difficult time. Sorry again. Ta DA!

Where I live the city would mow your lawn if it gets too unsightly and send you a bill.

Probably said this before, but I had a neighbour put a note through my door telling me that pouring boiling water on the weeds on my driveway would kill them. Bless her, she signed it and was known locally as a busybody. Just made me laugh!

Nothing worse than a neighbor who doesn't give 2 s**ts about his yard. I have to go along with the neighbor on this one. All it takes is one lazy neighbor to ruin a residential area.

They not wrong…

If the grass tickles your knees when walking up to your door, then get a mower or get gone. I have bad enough allergies without living next to a weedy, buggy mini-jungle.

Living in the Southwest, I grew tired of my grass and the water bill to maintain it so I opted to have it scraped clear and 3 inches of 3/4 crushed stone put down. The neighbor across the street has a gravel lawn and likes to point out how much nicer his yard always looks compared to the rest of us. The landscaper after finishing the job informed me in a voice loud enough to be heard by the neighbor that compared to our yard, his gravel yard looks like s**t.

Fun fact: In the US, in most cities, if you fail to mow your lawn on a regular basis, and the grass gets over a certain height, the cities CAN and WILL fine you for it. What's more, if the grass gets to a height that the property could be mistaken for being abandoned, cities can even condemn the property.

We like to keep it that way so we don’t have to look at your face.

I have neighbours who allow their grass to grow well over knee height all the time unless I ask their landlord to get it mowed. At least 8 times we’ve had snakes emerging from the grass, and neighbourhood pets regularly go missing. So I relate to this particular frustration though the sarcasm is childish.

I live in the hood and some of the rental houses can get REALLY bad at times. I'm talking grass up to your knees and then we have to worry about fleas, ticks, snakes and mice, especially when it's the houses next door to us. Code enforcement has started coming through our neighborhood on a regular basis now and leaving "nasty grams" on front doors. I'm guessing the city got several complaints because they rarely came into my neighborhood before now. They only care about the front yard and rarely go and look into the back, unless again it's something horrendously bad and they've received multiple complaints from different people. They will leave a notice on the front door giving you 10 days to mow the front yard, after that it's a $500.00 fine. Then it goes up to $1000.00 after another 10 days if you still haven't dealt with it.

This screams karin

This one lacks enough context for me to understand who the bad neighbor here. If it's in someplace that rains a lot a lawn can get really tall really fast and attract pests. If you're only mowing your lawn once a year then it makes sense in this context for the neighbors to be concerned.