I live in the boonies, so I don't have local ordinances about lawn keeping. My yard is around 2-3 acres, with a couple miles of trails out back. I don't mow the yard weekly or bi-weekly. I mow when the lawn needs it. I let the little weed flowers bloom and go to seed to scatter it when mowing. If it's been dry I don't mow because the grass slows down and don't need it. During firefly weeks I mow different sections on different days to give them places to be. Today is the last mow of the year for most of my yard that didn't get mowed before the weekend. I tend to let it get a bit long before winter. The trails get mowed in the spring as areas dry out and 3-4 times during the summer- last week saw the big double wide mowing of the meadow trails. And a small quarter acre or so of meadow that gets mowed down in late spring after blooms. It usually gets a mid-fall mow to knock out the seed heads for next spring. My mower deck is always at 4", the max.

I can't tell much difference between the before and after pics. The grass does look a little longer in the before.

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I agree with beesneeds. You can not apply one mowing schedule to everyone. It depends on where you live, not only location in the state, but what is in your immediate area. We live in the rain shadow of Raleigh Durham NC, or as we jokingly say the eastern desert. So while other areas around Raleigh Durham may get inches of rain, it is not unusual for us to get none. Since March I have mowed the yard 7 times, and plan on mowing once more this year.

We have a rain gauge in our yard and use it to know when to water the plants and flowers. We had to water a couple times in August and it looks like we will have to water this week.

We mow when the lawn looks like it needs it.