We've put bird netting around all the newly seeded areas... around and over. Apparently, gold finches really like grass seed. At $5/#, I'm not fond of footing their grocery bill. Um... hubby is not exactly enjoying it. Nope. Uh-uh. 
His standards are quite different than mine. He likes a nice looking lawn. With all of the weeds mowed to the same height, so it kind of resembles a lawn. All of the flowers neatly tucked into their beds, with not so much of a wisp of those plants trespassing onto the freshly mowed lawn. The man climbs onto his mower and enters the "zone". If it can be mowed down without beating the blades up too severely, it gets mowed down. Rhubarb, high bush blueberries, zucchini, flowers have all succumbed to "Mr. Mows It All" b/c they were not tucked behind a fence or rock. I once caught him trying to mow down a cherry tree. Me.... I like soft edges, with flowers spilling out of their beds into lawn and walk ways. I plant the garden right up to the edges. We have not yet killed each other b/c we put a fence around the garden! I've heard it said that strong fences make good marriages!
His standards are quite different than mine. He likes a nice looking lawn. With all of the weeds mowed to the same height, so it kind of resembles a lawn. All of the flowers neatly tucked into their beds, with not so much of a wisp of those plants trespassing onto the freshly mowed lawn. The man climbs onto his mower and enters the "zone". If it can be mowed down without beating the blades up too severely, it gets mowed down. Rhubarb, high bush blueberries, zucchini, flowers have all succumbed to "Mr. Mows It All" b/c they were not tucked behind a fence or rock. I once caught him trying to mow down a cherry tree. Me.... I like soft edges, with flowers spilling out of their beds into lawn and walk ways. I plant the garden right up to the edges. We have not yet killed each other b/c we put a fence around the garden! I've heard it said that strong fences make good marriages!
