Jon reports excellent progress with the growing in of the greens. The seed has germinated well and the greens are looking green! The pictures are of the second green and the approach to the first.
If like me you were intrigued as to why Claudia was driving a bunker rake over the newly seeded greens a few weeks back (see previous post for picture) here is the explaination.
The bunker rake is a piece of kit that is used to do that in the vast deserts that are American bunkers. However over here where a hand rake will suffice, the rake attachement is removed and the wheels become important. These are knobbly and as well as pressing the seed down, create little impressions in the soil which trap rain and create shadows aiding germination.
Jon has continued to work extremely hard on his own including a 14 hour stint on the mower one day. They have been using a small ride-on rotary mower which was ideal for the first few cuts of rough grass but on Thursday take delivery of larger cylinder mower which will speed up the job...Claudia can't wait to get her hands on this new toy. Claudia has now returned home after several weeks in Horbury with Ivy. While she was away there was another incident filled night at Gardeners Cottage when Jon was woken up by a bird flying into the bedroom window only to be woken up a second time shortly afterwards by the curtain rail falling down!
That's all for now but watch this space for important news coming soon.
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