This is what they did
@GardenGerty (160978)
United States
June 16, 2021 6:40pm CST
In this image is an old swather. A piece of equipment used to cut hay and other grasses.
It is in the old football field across the street from me.
The grass has grown all year and a local family comes in and cuts it in June most years. It will be made into those big round bales. They use the bales to feed some cattle, I believe. It is just a small, private operation.
In the foreground is my wheel barrow that has lemongrass, red basil and thyme in it.
Very much a summer picture. There are other planters on the ground with other herbs and such.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
My house is on four city lots. When there was a school here, the area across the street was the Football field. I am kind of on the outskirts of a very small town. I see lovely cloudscapes often.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
20 Jun 21
@much2say And the stars at night are spectacular.
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@much2say (56075)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Jun 21
@GardenGerty I don't know how big a city lot is - but 4 must be pretty sizable! Oh yah, the cloudscapes must be beautiful . . . looks like you can see a real horizon there too!
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
It has asparagus fern in it. I have not done much out there this year. So many people I know keep chickens.
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@kareng (61785)
• United States
17 Jun 21
@GardenGerty Nice! Yes, chickens are addictive! You get some and then want more! I started incubating eggs this year. I'm sure you saw pictures of that first batch of eggs.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
I like to think so. I need to go harvest some red basil.
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@BarBaraPrz (47677)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Jun 21
@GardenGerty How different is red basil from the green in taste? I've never heard of red basil until recently. The regular green stuff gives me indigestion.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
20 Jun 21
@BarBaraPrz Red tastes a little like anise or licorice. I have grown many types of basil. Wish I could find lemon basil again.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
Yes, lots of openness. Often I see wildlife over there, and even in my yard.
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@spiderdust (14760)
• San Jose, California
17 Jun 21
I never knew that was called a swather! I always think those round bales look neat. Definitely a nostalgic image from my childhood.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
They have gone so much to the big round bales now. When we bought our house it was a duplex and one of the kids from the family was renting one half. He parked the swather next door at the vacant house. I would not have known to call it a swather but that is what he called it.
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@kaylachan (71798)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Jun 21
Deffently that time of year, isn't it?
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
This is how I watch the seasons.
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@RasmaSandra (80784)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Jun 21
Looks like your herbs are doing very nicely. Back in Latvia if one does not have modern equipment one uses the old-fashioned scythe to cut grass. My husband had one and I kept away from that thing I could never learn to cut with it, I know my dad in his day plowed a whole field with a scythe,
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
20 Jun 21
I had a coworker who would scythe her fields.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
20 Jun 21
I may pass that along. What do you have in your wheel barrow. I have lemon grass, red basil and thyme. The thyme is really loving it.
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@Fleura (30541)
• United Kingdom
20 Jun 21
@GardenGerty I have chives and creeping thyme, a bit of parsley and there's some oregano popping up in there too.
@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
20 Jun 21
@CarolDM I have an old (190's?) hot water heater full of herbs as well. It was one my dad cut open. They used to be cast iron and really heavy.
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@Hanbinandaeyo (3301)
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17 Jun 21
I haven't seen any wheel barrow in my area for years
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
17 Jun 21
I bought this one used. When I discovered it had rusted through, I decided to plant in it this year. The ones I see now are bigger and are plastic.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
20 Jun 21
@Fleura This one was old when I got it more than twenty years ago.
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@Fleura (30541)
• United Kingdom
20 Jun 21
@GardenGerty The old ones certainly lasted well.
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