Figuring there must be some Luddites here...does anybody mow with an Austrian style scythe? I love, love, love mine but would like to talk with someone with different experience.

Who still has grass to mow?

I just mowed tonight. Even thought the temperatures have cooled considerably, the rain over the past several weeks has finally carried the earlier-applied fertilizer to the roots and the lawn has really greened.

I got grass .....mow every week still. But I ride. Too much to push.

Ahhh, but the joys of tai chi with a 28" razor blade! You people just don't know what you are missing!

I've used primitive scythes. I'd love to use a good one.

My neighbors would really think I'd gone insane. They think my push mower is batty.

Alexis - Good to see you , was wondering where you were.
BTW - what the heck is a Luddite?

I won't do grass any longer. When I did mow, I used a push mower. I have seen people in Switzerland using scythes on hillsides or tight areas - they appeared to be very efficient.

I'm a partial Luddite. I do not have a cell phone or any other little techie thing. But I love the computer and microwave ... and am partial to running water and flush toilets. :)

The last time I used that old ( '?' shaped) tool was when I was still very young
helping my father harvesting that tall-fat-stem-red-flowering-clover for [dry winter] animal fodder.
A very tough back breaking task.

I also remember eating some of those (freshly-peeled) 'fleshy' young stems during mid-growth
and those (as-is) 'very-sweet' red blossoms during harvest; yum,yum!

Welcome to modern machinery. I have one such tool just for keepsake/memories, though...

(Sulla -Hedysarum coronarium):

Hey Alexis!

Nice to see you here! JD has one of those things, and we might try it for weeds on our mountain. I'm thinking a machete would be better........

We won't have grass you mow, just the wild stuff that they call "weeds." We will have that fake stuff they call "putting green."

Hope your figs are doing well! I'm putting that Galbun of yours next to a fence so I can eat one and be forced to lean on that fence because it's "that good!" :-))

Suzi