This week has seen some work on the lawns.

Earlier in the week, the forecast was suggesting that the hot weather would break, so we got some spring treatment onto both lawns and as the weather remained stubbornly dry had to get the sprinkler going a couple of times to start watering it in.  The first of the promised rain finally arrived, accompanied by thunder, overnight.

Lawns are very unrewarding bits of garden to care for, they are swiftly infested by weeds and moss, the grass gets long and ungainly too quickly, or doesn’t seem to grow at all and the lawnmower seems to go blunt at the drop of a hat.  However, there is no doubt that a mowed lawn (with stripes in deference to my love of cricket outfields and cross-hatched fairways) really does help to make a garden look more cared for.