Scything is a practical virtue. Chiefly, you learn how to mow without polluting. Such changes in behaviour are as challenging and significant as they can be exhausting.
For me this ain't just youthful idealism (I'm a curmudgeonly 50 something like many Aussies of my gender), but a practical...
A scythe can edge around plants, under fences and along walls. A shorter more precise stroke is used.
I seem to remember taking the whipper snipper too close to a wire fence risked losing the whole length of cord if it got caught on the wire.
As for scythes being "Ancient" they're still in use...
I rarely have trouble getting paid and have been thinking of debt collection as horizontal integration of my business.
I hear, "There goes the Grim Reaper," as I pass most building sites.
A scythe mows according to the users capacity. Bad back, limited core strength, or disability, as long as...
Get a scythe! www.manwithscythe.com (that's me) They work. Mow wet or dry, long or short and can cut solanum mauritainum up to 2 or 3 inches (beyond that and for harder woody weeds I use a hand made Michael Drinkwater brush hook. A damn fine tool) Scythes are resilient, sustainable and you can...
Does anyone know how to deal with gall wasp in a dwarf grapefruit? They don't bother the other citrus but the little gf is riddled. Maybe it's weakened by the dwarfing root stock?
Jeff