After I did the scythe course in August, I ordered one from
The Scythe Shop, and now
I've put it to use in the garden. Images follow:
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everything.
As those of you who've been to recent barbecues will have seen,
the garden has been turned over to tall grass and meadow plants.
They've gone to seed now, so it was time to take them out for the
winter.
Before:
The First Swath:
(According to Clive Leeke, in standard English it rhymes with "moth",
not "bath" or "bathe". Compare "wrath".)
This took about five minutes. All the time I was cutting, I was
surrounded by a glorious smell of cut plants, something I've never
noticed with a lawnmower.
I did most of it in five and ten minute chunks, pausing to cool off.
Once one's got the hang of the motion, one can make remarkable
progress in a short time, while retaining a feeling of contact with
the earth and an awareness of the differing lumpiness and firmness of
the ground.
Alas, I rapidly filled our garden bin, so I left most of the cuttings on
the ground.
And then a final trim with the cuttings removed:
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