"AWM" wrote in
:

All the
turf in my cul de sac was laid on the same day, all my neighbours have
weeds - clover, dandylions and docks the area cut by the contractor is
the worst affected but I don't have weeds and the only difference
between the way I treat my grass and my neghbours is that I set my
mower at slightly a higher setting and don't use a grass box as I
cut the grass 3+ times a week in the peak growing season.

Thanks for this tip (though perhaps not in the way originally intended!) .
I'd wondered why my lawn was filling up with grasses, and I was losing the
gorgeous patchwork of bugle, clover, primroses, periwinkle and daisies that
the previous owner of the house had achieved.

Think I must have been mowing too often and too high.

I've now got a mower with a grass-catcher, so I will try mowing less
regularly (hurray!), and scalping it a bit when I do.

I much prefer the 'weeds' to the grass, so the opposite regime to yours
sounds like just the thing for me.

Victoria