Before and After

Dead pleased with this job. I had to wait until 7pm when it was cool enough to even venture out onto the lawn and into the weeds.

This is the huge volume of dead annual grasses that were on the steep bank above the lawn.

Scale, scale. This pile is over six feet high.

It was almost too heavy to drag, but drag I did.  The huge pile now lies happily in the very far corner of the duck pond. 

And I have an almost blank canvas on which to plot and plan.  I see terracing using chestnut poles coming along.  This winter.