Mowing the wild meadow

 Due to the drought conditions, all of the plants in them meadow area have set seeds early.  It is now time to start mowing it back.  I always do this job in small sections, as it can be quite difficult. The first job is always to comb over the lawn area to be mown to see if there are any moths or frogs in the grass.

The job is done in segments and this image shows the half way point for today.  It is a case of cutting out any sturdy plants with secateurs and removing any pebbles, bits of debris and conker husks. Then the vegetation is mown over at the highest blade setting to take off the top layer, then work down the settings to reduce the grass to lawn level.

The pale grass shows the area that I have mown back today - the area behind the arch will be done on a couple of other days.  Our brown garden refuse bin is now full and ready to be emptied tomorrow morning.

The foxes are finding refuge in our garden at present.  This one is resting on the dry and dusty infill soil that I have levelled where we removed a large raised bed.

The badgers are unable to find worms in the dry conditions as they are too deep in the soil for the badgers to smell them out.  However, this badger has found something to get excited about as it runs off behind the greenhouse with a mouth full.