Mowing at the Viewpoint

In the last blog post I mentioned that we had started this year's grassland maintenance at Filnore Woods. At the work party last Wednesday April 23rd we continued this work up at the viewpoint to try and keep on top of it.

As you can see the grass is starting to grow quite vigorously as the weather warms up.

There were only four of us this time and Alan R, Jim and Eric are trying out some new scythe blades we have just bought. They are making good progress while I'm lagging behind with an old blade that's showing its age.

It wasn't long before we'd cut down a considerable amount of grass ...

... then had a break before raking up the arisings, though they look a bit grumpy. Maybe I'm working them too hard!

After we'd finished raking up the grass the viewpoint was looking much tidier but of course the grass doesn't stop growing so we will be back before too long.

This is looking in the other direction along the viewpoint and the grass here is just as bad. There were only four of us this time and we did well to cut as much as we did. We'll probably have a go at this bit next time.

                                                                            

Elsewhere in the woods we have lots of bluebells this year. They have followed on from the primroses which were also plentiful.