A Family Garden

As you can see from the picture below we have a far from perfect lawn. Its been a few weeks since it was last mowed and this is what grows up through the grass.

As of today all the flowers are gone, but they will be back.

It took two days to mow the lawn this weekend. Heavy showers interrupted saturday,

I mowed the lawn for the first time in a couple of weeks because of all the rain we have had recently.

Today M. took on the job of reshaping the lower left hand border next to the patio. The border edge has always been straight, but since the new patio was constructed it never looked good. The solution has been to put a curve in the border that starts out tangent to one of the patio sleepers and curves around on a constant radius to near the maple where it joins back in with the existing edge. Luckily the grass we cut out filled the area that was added to the lawn. I’ll need to keep this area well watered until the grass establishes itself.

The end result looks great and the lawn now sweeps up the garden.

The first time for a few weeks. The lack of rain means the grass hasn’t been growing much. I bought two bags of horse manure to put into the compost heap before the grass cuttings went on.