Week 7 - Mowing

The focus this week has been on mowing. In particular mowing the lavender field. The grass between the rows of lavender was almost the same height as the lavender, around knee height.

P and I took turns on the ride-on mower, riding up and down the rows. We have about 20-25 rows of lavender altogether. It was very, very slow going because the grass was so long. We had to travel at the slowest speed and have the blades as high as we could. In the half day we had available to do it in, we got about half of it mowed. The rest of the week T has been here finishing off the mowing for us. There is just no way I can do it while the girls are here. So we've had to pay someone to do it.



It took T three and a half full days to do an intial mow of the grass (continuing on from what we'd been doing), weedeat around the lavender plants where the mower couldn't get, and then do another final mow to cut the grass short.

The lavender should be ready for harvest in about a weeks time.

All that's left to do now is pulling the weeds out from inside the lavender. I spent a couple of hours doing it in Sunday. It is very slow and time consuming and fiddly work. Each row takes me about 45 minutes.

The ride-on lawnmower is broken again. We only just got it back from the repair shop a couple of weeks ago. Now it just sends out lots of smoke when you turn it on. P thought it was the oil and replaced that. But it's still not going.

The vege garden is still full of weeds however the potatoes are getting bigger. We also have some kind of pumpkin/squash thing growing too.

-M