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By Rose Cutting
Gardening Editor</b>

In what appears to be the answer to every gardener's prayers, a Suffolk company has invented a type of grass that never needs to be cut.

The seeds are sown and the grass grows as normal, but the special formula means each blade never reaches more than an inch in height.

Instead it stops growing, leaving a beautiful uniform finish across the garden.

The news will be welcomed by householders who will no longer have to give up part of their weekends to mow the lawn and discard the cuttings.

But with no maintenance or mowing required, lawnmower manufacturers and retailers are now bracing themselves for a huge downturn in business.

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The new seeds were developed by YourInchPerfect Grass Ltd of Lavenham, in a secret testing facility behind one of the village's chocolate-box houses.

Managing Director Uhar Dowting-Thomas,32, revealed: "We've spent years developing the grass and it works a treat.

"However, we have to proceed carefully to ensure the grass seed does not cross-contaminate nearby farmers' fields, because there's every chance none of their crops would grow above an inch in height.

"But we're sure everyone would forgive a few failed harvests of it meant they nerver had to bother cutting the grass again."

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