Some people wonder why the city needs to mow the grass. There may be several answers here: grass is mowed according to orders and rules; for the prevention of tick-borne encephalitis and other diseases carried by ticks; because it pays well and, finally, because it is more beautiful.
lawn mowing
If we consider the legal reason for shortening the grass in the summer, we must remember that there is such a document as the "Rules for the creation, protection and maintenance of green spaces in the cities of the Russian Federation", approved by order of the Gosstroy of the Russian Federation No. 153. According to this, housing and communal services workers should take care of green spaces in the city: sow, sow, water, fertilize, mow, patch up damaged areas with turf, pierce the ground, plant shrubs and flowers.
Lawns should be mowed when above 10 cm, and 3-5 cm should be left. Housing and communal services workers are required to mow the grass every 15-20 days. At the same time, the territory of forest parks and meadows does not fall under these rules. In fact, virtually no maintenance work for green spaces other than grass mowing is carried out, either due to lack of funds or because mowing is expensive compared to other maintenance work.
Grass cutting for human health and aesthetics
The second important reason is that in many regions of Russia, ixodid ticks are common - carriers of encephalitis, borreliosis and other dangerous diseases. Female ticks are very active in spring and summer. Tick bites in yards, on playgrounds are quite frequent. A person seriously injured by a tick bite in a yard can sue housing and communal services workers and win the case if the grass was not cut on time.
Ticks bite not only people, but also pets, which can bring them into the house from an unmowed lawn.
The third reason to mow the grass is aesthetic. A site with neatly cut thick grass looks much more attractive and better than overgrown with weeds.
The city with well-groomed lawns, roadside green areas, with flowers and trimmed shrubs seems more comfortable and hospitable to guests.
Russian lawns are now, of course, far from English, but after all, in England once everything was different. In a hundred years, the same neat and clean herbaceous plantations may appear in Russia.
