Who
enjoys collecting up leaves? It is just like mowing the grass, after all. We in the Parish
know all about leaves and are fortunate to know a good deal about grass.
It
is a remarkable thing, it seems to me, that grass cutters nowadays are so terribly good at
collecting up leaves, chopping them, bagging them, preparing them for the compost heap -
yet there is nothing of this in the literature. Can
it be that the people who make mowers also make blowers that they want to sell? So that they point out the virtues of mowing
machines only to the extent of summer pursuits?: such that later on we all rush off and
buy something separate - blowers, for instance - when autumn comes'?
There
is just one thing: its name is mud. When
autumn comes, mud comes too. Can our mower
cope with mud, take it in its stride, in just the same way as it copes with leaves? It is here that the geology of the Parish comes
in. You see, it is remarkable that within the
Parish there is great variation in geological strata. It has something to do with the
fineness of the particles. Put another way, it's what you mean by mud. You have to
say what part of the Parish: for some of us live on sandy soil and some of us grapple, as
so I hear, with conglutinate clay that is good for potatoes, but decidedly clogging to
mowing machines.
So
..... whó enjoys collecting up leaves? I
hope we all do, most particularly those who live on clay.
I feel quite sure that for leaves per acre our suburban Parish can not be
bettered. It's part of the life.
Now
a word of advice. It goes like this: if your mower can't cope, invest in a blower.
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