Mow municipal area only once per year

A approximately 4-meter-wide plot of land belonging to the municipality adjoins my property, through which a water channel runs. Due to this water channel, the piece has significant height differences and therefore cannot be mowed with a lawnmower.

How high is the channel? We have the same problem in our new development area: between the properties and the street or paths there is either a green strip or an infiltration basin. Last November, grass seed was sown. Therefore, the grass has not really established itself, so more weeds are covering the areas. This also affects the playground. The municipality can certainly not take care of the maintenance more than 1-2 times a year.

Since Monday, someone has been working on the hills of the street. My husband has been wondering for weeks why not even a single father moves his mower onto the playground and makes the area nice for the children and mothers. He would probably do it if he did not already mow the public strip and his neighbor’s lawn once a week, who is ill, but he also does not see why he should when there are plenty of fathers here.

And that is exactly how you do it if you want it to look nice next to or in front of you: maintain it yourself. Since we have often been annoyed by the maintenance, I have photos:

An infiltration basin in front of an undeveloped property

An infiltration basin behind a developed property

our basin (grass seed did not take, but we are working on it)

the neglected playground

behind our houses: public land maintained by the residents

I find it completely unproblematic to take matters into your own hands and cannot understand some people who stop at their garden boundary.

Hello everyone,
thank you very much for the feedback.

Where exactly is the piece (in front of the house, behind the garden)? In doubt, it will be sold as a biotope

The piece runs alongside the house. In my profile picture, you can even see the dirt trap grille in the lower left area that sits in front of the street underpass of the gutter.

Well, you just have to weigh it up... either meter-high grass in front of the door or an afternoon a month behind the mower...

I just don't understand why other inner-village areas are mowed approximately monthly by the municipality. These also include areas directly adjacent to the gutter, such as the meadow visible at the bottom of my profile picture.

How high is the gutter?

The area I’m talking about is about 4m wide in front and has a height difference of about 1m. Over the length of about 45m (my property length), the municipal piece narrows to about 2.50m.

I find it completely unproblematic if you do the work yourself and cannot understand some people who stop at their garden boundary.

I have absolutely no problem with that either. I also mow the green strip in front of our house towards the street. However, for example, the lower part of the gutter can no longer be mowed with a normal lawnmower. So far, I have never needed a (motorized) brush cutter on my property and would have to buy one or borrow one each time.

Some / numerous meadow and roadside edges are used as bee pastures or colorful strips of flowers/herbs here. Mowing is therefore done very rarely (once a year), but a colorful seed mixture was consciously incorporated. Some neighbors find it awful, others are very satisfied with it. The insects are happy, the hobby fruit distillers and jam makers are happy, and the birds are happy too... The rest of a farm meadow on our property has not yet been prepared accordingly, but it is generally forgotten by the municipality. My neighbor and I go through it 2-4 times a year with a scythe (hand scythe) and make sure to preserve some of the flowering plants and thistles. It looks a bit scruffy, but still quite OK, blooms again and again (poppy, clover, and much more), and is slowly becoming more colorful year by year. As long as the municipality does nothing, it probably won’t bother anyone.

I don't believe you can do anything about it except mow yourself. In our town, there are also such strips in the new development areas that must be used for renaturation. They are mowed only once a year, if at all. Even with mowing twice, your lawn will quickly turn into a meadow. My advice: Either a privacy fence, mow a strip twice a month, or accept it.

This is how it currently looks:

Edit: The green strip to the left of the bushes was mowed by the municipality. Next to the bushes, you can then make out my hedge.

I wouldn't like that either, I would take matters into my own hands as well. If the budget is tight after building the house, then maybe look for a brush cutter on the classifieds.