"Jim" [email protected] wrote in message
...
...for a couple of months (say) what are the long-term implications. Of
course
it will be unsightly and could present the mower with an initial problem
when
finally getting round to being cut but what about the long-term
implications for
the grass itself? Will it recover if subsequently given its due
attention.

thanks for any thoughts

In general the lawn should be fine (assuming it is a utility lawn) - I am
trying to keep mine medium long this summer after the damage done by the dry
weather last year.

Implications:

coarse grasses may start to crowd out the finer lawn grasses which grow
better when 'grazed' by a lawnmower.

the grass may well go to seed, which won't harm the lawn but may well affect
the rest of your garden :-)

when you cut it back short it may take a little time to green up again, as
the lower stems you expose will have been shaded by the higher leaves and
gone yellow.

Don't worry too much - people quite often leave gardens (e.g. during moving
or after a bereavement) and the lawns soon recover after a cut or two, and
the borders reappear after weeding.

HTH
Dave R