Well, here in North Yorkshire it’s been dry..very dry indeed. No rain here for many months with the threat of hosepipe bans being mentioned by the ‘leaky rich’ water company who administer our Chlorine/ Fluorine tasting water, oh, gosh I really do hate the taste, but necessary to keep myself hydrated!
So, I’m so glad this May Bank holiday sesh is laden with rain. I took part in ‘no Mow May’, oooh and also in April, March, and of course February as the continuing dry spell prevented my lawns from growing. ‘No Mow May’ should have been relabelled ‘No Grow May!’
Yellow could easily be the new green for grass colour!
Yet as I’m trundling around my customer’s gardens searching for weeds to oyk out they still insist on me cutting their lawns.
“But they’re in resting mode and gone all yellowy-brown” I say to them which falls away as they insist on me cutting deadened blades of grasses. I really think they just like the stripes the mower creates to give that manicured cut. It’s just a change in colour of their lawns from deep green to straw yellow!
Still, some rain will be welcomed everywhere and certainly bring with it the growing and refreshing of lawns, ooh and a resurgence of weeds to their borders!
Let’s see what next week’s gardening has in-store (or straw) for me!
now for a cup-of-T
Telstales 
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