A Tale of Two Weekends

So, this weekend(ish) took me East to visit my parents for a couple of days - beautiful Spring weather, and we were out and about, including a visit to the Springfields Outlet Shopping Centre at Spalding - shopping and tulips (etc.) :)

  

While I was basking in glorious sunshine (and shopping!), Martin was busy in the garden tackling our moss problem:

Generating lots of bags of moss for the tip . . .

By the time I got back - on the Saturday afternoon train - the moss had all been dealt with.  

Met at Borth, for a walk along their prom, and a look at the Borth Scarecrow Festival, including this happy group at the old YHA Borth (stayed there back in the day when I was contemplating coming to Aber to university!):

All in all a good couple of family days for me - even managed to fit in my first ever parkrun - and some productive garden tasks completed at home!

Moss, Moss and More Moss

Another autumnal task - de-mossing the back lawn - where it had started taking over again.





We ended up with a lot of bags of moss - and this from only half the lawn.  The rest will have to wait for the Spring!

Project Moss

It's become increasingly apparent recently that quite a lot of our lawns are more moss than grass.

Having decided to do something about it, we've started with an electric scarifier on one of the front lawns - might have gone a bit overboard in our first attempt though as we managed to generate a ton bag of moss from the smallest of our bits of lawn!





Stage 2 has involved recourse to chemical warfare, and between the scarifying and the moss killer it looks like we may have got most of it - of course that means we're going to be left with a very patchy lawn (time to buy some grass seed?).