crazy idea... what do you think? If no one is munching isn't something missing?
when you mow you take the stem.
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I had a similar thought. So, I do that with my "Wildflower Meadow" garden. Partly because I never actually eliminated the lawn grass before planting it. I just make pockets -- dug up, turned sod, or mini-sheet mulched -- to plant in. Somebody has to be the deer/bison around here and "eat" tall grass to the ground So to allow self-seeded and scattered seeds/seedballs to grow, I go around snatching hand(mouth)fuls of grass -- breaking off some, yanking out some (which are used in compost pile or as mulch) and scratch around/dethatch with my hand sickle. (I actually imagine myself as a grass-eating animal, to try to imagine the kind of unpatterned, random defoliation that might occur.) I tried with a hand rake, but that seems to cause too much wholesale damage.
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