The Suburbanites & their Lawns

I do mow a large area of grass but as little as possible. A lot is used as mulch round fruit trees, bushes and canes as well as flower beds. The problem with collecting the mulch is it takes a lot more effort to collect the grass and then spread it round the beds than just letting the clippings stay on the grass. I didn't used to but a couple of years ago I put some round apple and pear trees and they had a massive growth spurt. My Katy tree probably had a couple of hundred good size apples this year. I actually counted them a few of days ago and there were still 100 left on it, not counting the ones the wasps were eating.

We do have one lawn which I think the moles know as it is the one grassy patch that they have never dug through in the about 40 years we have lived here. Interestingly, the grass where the clothes line is has produced 40 years of cutting and in that time has had no fertilizer applied. It still grows very lush and always has mole activity. Maybe they fertilize it?