Mulching lawn clippings

So there are lists and there are lists. I didn’t have weed neighbour’s asparagus bed on mine today.  But that was what I ended up doing.

I actually planned to collect all the lawn clippings into bags and put them on the top potager.

But I had so much left that I was able to do a good deed.

But first off I needed to mulch all my asparagus and the lilies .

What do you do with a few acres of lawn cuttings? In this hot dry climate they make a brilliant mulch. I don’t have to worry about slimy grass.

So I worked my way up and down the rows, packing grass cuttings around all the lilies, smothering weeds as I went.

And then I added more to potatoes. Trying to avert my gaze from the mess of weeds that are everywhere up here.

I then waded. And I mean waded along the terrace to Jean Daniel’s potager. Plucky Artur followed in my wake.

And this was where I had to check my chucking of grass cuttings and get weeding. Boy it’s jungly.

And as I knelt on the asparagus bed hauling out armfuls of fast growing annual weeds, I had an encumbrance slowing me down.

Oh yes, that would be the cat surfing event. Artur loves to climb onto the backs of my legs and perch jauntily. And I am forced to shuffle forward, trying not to tip him up. He didn’t even grow bored until I reached the end of the row.

And then I left him guarding the bed while I went and fetched more mulch. Surfing, snoozing, I tell you he leads a frantic life.