Barn gardening section done. A double shelf and a rail on the other side for hanging tools. Then moving everything back in.

Then I grabbed that strimmer there, which runs well with the replaced fuel line and cleared a lot of weeds until some supersized nettles defeated it.

Nettles have these strong fibres inside them that you can weave into fabric. Or wrap around a strimmer head until it can no longer turn.

Then put the mower into jetski mowde and cleared the path down to the valley, which was also thickly overgrown. Surprisingly, I did not get stuck and made it back up. Always a worry on that very steep path.

Now to recuperate from the hayfever attack all this triggered 😬

#Homestead #DIY #Cleanup #Mowing

Last weekend, like every year at this time, I mowed our meadow. Two hectares of grass. First mowing, then raking, then carrying it all off. It is a simply task. But I enjoy it (at least once a year)! Ten hours for two days outside in nature and doing something that has a noticeable impact. Small insects return. The diversity of plants steadily increases. A slight shift in plant succession each year. Clouds passing by. A sudden thunderstorm. The smell of the grass. Yes, mowing is always a mass slaughter amongst the insects living there. But it is also necessary. Without twice mowing a year, there would be no grass, with trees growing really fast. Carrying off the grass also reduces nutrient input in the soil. Nettles are growing at the hay stack. These are critical for butterflies. Without this work, many of the plants and animals would not be there. Most of the work is done by hand and small gear, which is the gentlest method (after using the scythe, which isn't possible due to time constraints). Anyway. A stable ecosystem is really important. Any part of the ecosystem that can be protected from loss of diversity is critical. This is my tiny contribution.

#mowing #diversity #ecosystem #insects #nature #landscape #grass

Clueing up about flail mulcher attachments, because it looks like our hay meadow deal is going that way 😕

#Farm #Hay #Mulching #Homestead #Tractor #Mowing

⚡Sony revealed the PlayStation Plus lineup for June: on June 16 the vault gains Final Fantasy XVI (PS5), Sonic X Shadow Generations (PS4/PS5), Kingdom Come: Deliverance (PS4/PS5), Life is Strange: Double Exposure (PS5), Farming Simulator 25 (PS5) and Black Desert (PS5).

Premium members get only one PS2 classic this month (a rhythm game). Also note: on June 16 five games leave the service, We Love Katamari Reroll + Royal Reverie; LEGO The...

#SteamAndEpic #PS5 #Simulator #June #Edition #Mowing

I wonder if he wants to do another attempt 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrGlMdGqOI

#Mowing #Scythe #Youtube #Hay

The #ecological #comfort, a way of life: https://www.aurianneor.org/the-eco-comfort-a-way-of-life-how-to-use/

#architect #art #cleaning #compost #ecofriendly #ecology #environmental #enzymatic #home #housework #insects #laundry #mosquitoes #mowing #orchard #organic #probiotic #solarpanels #temperaturecontrol #water #wayoflife

I have pretty much all of the backyard mowed. I have an electric mower, an Ego, which at this point is about 8 years old. Thanks to a larger battery for my little off-grid system, my lawn mowing is solar powered. The sun makes the grass grow, and it can make it shorter also.

I actually have charged it this way before, but it's tricky since I don't have enough solar to handle the draw of the charger. A bigger battery acts as a buffer, so the solar can catch up.

#solar #mowing

Grass of empire - Mowing the lawn: the colonial ghosts haunting our suburban ritual

"The lawn – the “telltale patchwork quilt of European settlement” – arrived in this country with the British. The ones established over here were intended to mimic and to elicit an emotional connection with the ones left behind."

"Like the introduction of other exotic flora and fauna, pastoral farming and parliamentary government, the laying down of the lawn was one of the ways in which colonisation marked this land."

"Perhaps not at the very beginning, when most new arrivals would have been busy felling trees, draining wetlands and burning bush. But once the footholds had been established and life had become a little less precarious, it was time to take up the challenge of civilising the new colonial spaces by reproducing the landscapes of Home. Time to impose order upon chaos and inscribe empire on the land. Time to cultivate the lawn."

"This is also the lexicon used by those who colonise to characterise what must be done to those who have been colonised. Indigenous people need to be kept in their place just as much as indigenous flora does, and for much the same reason: give them half a chance and they’ll get away on you."

"Of the knowledge that colonisation is not just about the movement of people and power across time and space. Ideas, too, are instruments of empire. As is grass and the land it grows on." >>
https://theconversation.com/mowing-the-lawn-the-colonial-ghosts-haunting-our-suburban-ritual-283270
#lawn #mowing #suburbia #SettlerSociety #ExoticGrass #FossilFuel #pollution #NoisePollution #colonisation #TheColonialProject #British #empire #ColonistGrass #flora #extinction

Image: The “telltale patchwork quilt of European settlement” at the Mid North Coast of NSW. The palms were in the way of the machinery and had to go. The leaves will soon be blown onto the road/drain by a leaf blower.