What I like best about my type of gardening is scavenging for free goodies to sustain an earthy lifestyle. Today I raked up three bags full of cut grass on the wide plain beyond our place before you reach the river. Left by the Council mower, it provides an almost unlimited supply to feed into a new compost heap I am building.
Interestingly, I got the thumbs up from an elderly Asian woman walking with three others. I don't know if she was giving the thumbs up for someone doing their own gardening, for clearing up our vast 'backyard' of unwanted grass, or whether she was just saying hello. It doesn't matter - I'll take the thumbs up for what must seem like a bizarre activity to many people. Shame that most of the grass just goes to feed the grass growing back quicker before the next mowing.
One day, I hope this vast flat ground 'sleeping in the sun' may feed large expanses of corn, or wheat or grain of some other sort. It may need a richer, organic base to do so; but it would be a lot more productive and useful than large expanses of grass for petrol-driven mowers to level every few weeks.
It doesn't even see locals playing football or cricket, or flying a kite.
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