{"id":121888,"date":"2021-09-08T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-let-the-grasshoppers-grow\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:17:41","slug":"country-diary-let-the-grasshoppers-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-let-the-grasshoppers-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: let the grasshoppers grow"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSandy, Bedfordshire: The lawn hasn\u2019t been mowed since the first greenish-brown babies appeared in early June, and the inhabitants are chirruping their approvalAll summer long, passersby have halted at the top of our garden to read a sign pinned to the gatepost, then they smile or even giggle. I hope that I might have saved them unnecessary work.Germany has a name for the \u201cclassic\u201d lawn: it is the englischer Rasen, a close-mown, single species turf. Our social media gatepost offers an alternative \u2013 a Jiminy Cricket-like cartoon insect declares that ours is a grasshopper nature reserve and that we are letting the grass grow until the end of the season. Continue reading…
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