Grass Clippings

Cutting the Grass...

It was supposed to Thunder storm today but it was just overcast and sunny on and off. So I went outside and rather than my usually maintenance I decided I wanted to deal with the issue of the grass. The 10 inch tall grass that wouldn't grow an 1/8 of an inch last year but somehow boomed this year. So I got the weed hacker/trimmer out and started trimming. It was an absolute disaster. The grass went flying all over my legs were covered in it and the clippings kept flying into the beds. So I went looking for the lawn mower. 

I finally found it in front of the house. I dragged it and the 50 yard extension chord attached to it to the backyard and plugged it in. I figured out how to turn it on and started mowing in patches around the boxes. It worked better than the trimmer but it didn't get the grass I especially wanted to get, the grass growing so tall it was leaving into the boxes (Potagar not Patch). I raked all the clippings up and put them in a trash bag the tried using the trimmer on just the hedges. It was still I mess so I moved on to the clippers. They were small and too hard to use on such an enormous space. We'll have to get larger clippers and cut by hand. 

I was so hot sweaty and frustrated i did nothing else in the garden, either.