I'm about to rake the moss out of the lawns

That was much harder work than it sounds. I've had to leave the biggest lawn for next week.

Last yr, we went on two outings, to fancy gardens. Over here, they call it a tour.
The first was to Altamont :

https://www.dochara.com/places-to-visit/parks-gardens/altamont-house-gardens/

I can't think of the name of the second place right now, but was in Blessington.
Anywway, we're going again in a few wks, probably back to Altamont.

What lovely green gardens

Fangirl Three wrote:

I'm about to rake the moss out of the lawns

I did that this weekend too! It's like we're living parallel garden lives.

When I say I "did" it, I only raked about quarter of one of the two lawns as it's so strenuous. I had also mowed that one lawn (for the first time this season) to make the raking a bit easier.

Butterfield wrote:

Fangirl Three wrote:

I'm about to rake the moss out of the lawns

I did that this weekend too! It's like we're living parallel garden lives.

I did it because I remembered last February, where you were like 'I've raked out the moss' and I was like 'But doesn't that spread the spores?' and you were like 'No, not if you do it at this time of year.'

Ohh yeah. I was wondering when it was I did it last year, and whilst I was doing it I remembered about the whole spores time of year thing, hoping I was early enough.

I couldn't exactly remember my own advice which I in turn had read about just days before I did it last year.

I've given the lawnmower its annual overhaul, mowed all 4 lawns for the first time this year, and dug over the potato bed ready for planting.

I mowed for the second time this year yesterday.

I planted the potatoes today. 15 Cara seed potatoes and 4 random potatoes that I uncovered in the bed*, 2nd generation¶ ones from last year, and which had begun sprouting.

I also uncovered an unsprouted 2nd generation potato which I made into delicious microwave crisps.

* the potato bed, not my bed

¶ By 2nd generation I mean potatoes that grew from the seed potatoes I planted last year, rather than those old seed potatoes themselves. You mustn't eat seed potatoes because they may have been treated with fungicide

I've been saved from having to mow the lawn by the appearance of rain.

# I bless the rains down in Anglia...

Harvesting spudulicas is a most satisfying thing.

Nightjar wrote:

Harvesting spudulicas is a most satisfying thing.

Indeed it is, like digging for treasure.

Though that won't be happening for another 5 or 6 months.

Fangirl Three wrote:

I've been saved from having to mow the lawn by the appearance of rain.

# I bless the rains down in Anglia...

Do you mean "saved" because you don't like mowing? If so, I've gone from hating mowing to relatively enjoying it since I bought a battery powered mower. No dangerous, tangling wires, no petrol spilling everywhere, just a battery (plus a spare one) which charges in about half an hour and lasts for two decent-sized lawns. The mower is also more powerful than you'd expect, light to carry, collects the grass clippings very well and leaves stripes on the lawn.

I quite like mowing, it's just one of those things I hate the thought of doing before I do them.

I have just now mowed and weeded all 4 lawns. Gosh that was hard work.

I worked very hard for 2 hours in the garden today. I mowed all the lawns, and savagely cut back the verbena which has become much too dominant. I was amazed how thick the main trunk was, I had to use the pruning knife and then swap it for the bow saw, which is a really serious saw that I bought when I was cutting up that fallen apple tree a while back.

I thought I'd been clever in allowing 45 minutes' pruning, and 45 minutes for shredding the bits, but I spent 65 minutes shredding and had to stop. I estimate there's at least 30 minutes' more shredding to do tomorrow.

I got all dressed up to mow the lawns and then realised it had started raining. So instead I did some pleasantly melancholy hoeing in the gentle rain.