[AT] ZTR mower follow up

[charlie hill]

Ralph it's pretty much the same here.  I have a couple of small areas
of turf grass but most of my place is heavily wooded with oaks that 
not much will grow beneath.  I live in a place that used to be remote
and is now surrounded with town folks with fancy houses and lawns to 
match.  I guess they'll be glad when I'm gone.    They all manicure their 
places and some of them seem to catch every leaf that falls in autumn
one at a time before they can cover the ground.   The only thing I do to
leaves and small twigs is mow them into oblivion with the mower.  I figure
if mother nature didn't want them on the ground they wouldn't be there.

It's finally turned nice here except we're having too much rain.
I have some tomatoes planted and growing and my potatoes are starting
to come up.  I've got to get busy on the rest of the garden.

Crops here are generally behind due to both cold weather and wet weather.
Even when the farmers wanted to get in the field they couldn't.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff 
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 10:52 AM 
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] ZTR mower follow up 

On 5/3/2014 6:55 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Oh I know,  our so called "River Keeper" spends a lot of
> time in an airplane up your way looking for some farmer to
> blame for something when his own manicured lawn slopes
> directly into the Neuse River.
Don't forget to spray on plenty of 2-4D in case a dreaded dandelion 
should show up to spoil that perfect green lawn. Sarcasm intended. My 
lawn is all natural here. Not even planted. Just nature's own prairie 
grass or whatever else chooses to grow. I mow it all down with the 
little John Deere, dandelions and all and I will say it looks pretty 
darn good to me. Plus I can walk on it without worrying I am picking up 
toxic chemicals on my boots.
Now if it would just warm up enough for the grass to start growing! 
Freezing this morning at 30 degrees. I tried putting some fence pickets 
in yesterday but hit frost a few inches down and could not drive those 
pickets down even with the big hammer. Late spring in Sask.

Ralph in Sask.


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