One thing mentioned in every meadow-making forum is the importance of cutting and removing the year’s growth. So to see our neighbour Panda rowing up ready for baling is rather exciting.
I’m still trying to decide on what next. I think we need another attempt at sowing more yellow rattle seed - there won’t be enough seed from this year’s rattle to give much hope for next year. Somehow we need to expose some earth to sow the seed into. Some suggest ‘scalping’ the grass by mowing the remaining grass as close and short as possible - even if just in patches. Or - maybe hire a small rotavator and turn over some strips…
