Grass doesn’t grow when it is really dry. Grass grows a lot when it is wet. Lawnmowers are terrible at cutting wet grass. We seem to have developed a tool that works best when it isn’t needed. There is a fairly obvious conflict here.
When I was looking at property in Spain I saw a small field next to the river. It came with a contract with a local goatherd who took care of the grass. I wondered if there is scope for goat rental here. Unfortunately not. Goats don’t really go for the sort of grass we grow in our lawns.
In fact, why do we grow lawns? What is it with the sort of grass we grow? When planting my tree recently I spotted that the soil under my lawn is only about 5cm thick. It really needs to be another 10cm thicker. It helped me understand why my lawn is not really going to improve much unless I remove it and put a thick layer of soil underneath. So it got me to thinking about why I try to grow a lawn – why do I try to force something to grow that isn’t natural in the local soil?
It got me wondering about what else I try to force in life that is against some sort of “natural order”. Maybe this is a good time to get rid of them. Or will it never be right to break wind in an elevator?