Green Fingers

I hate gardening.
Not to mention mowing the lawn, which I despise (which home chore don't I hate?).
The problem is that our lawn hadn't been mowed / mown (delete as appropriate) since last year. As a result the grass was about nine inches (and I know nine inches!) high and kept causing the mower to jam.
I was having to un-jam it non-stop and ended up having green fingers.