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Janet · 13-11-2018, 12:10 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening,uk.d-i-y

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On 12/11/18 20:05, Janet wrote:
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On 12/11/2018 16:36, Chris Green wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Janet wrote:
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In uk.d-i-y Ermin wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:59:34 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

We have bought a Stiga 'out front' mower for the lawns so I'm wondering
what to get for the rougher paddock areas.

Why not use the Stiga for that as well?

Because it's not designed for rough ground or for hacking through tall
nettles and such. Our paddocks can get pretty overgrown at times with
great patches of thistles, nettles and tough grass.

Have you thought of setting up an electric fence, then putting pigs in
to clear the enclosed area? They will eat everything, dig out all roots
and eat those too, thoroughly dig and compost the soil, then you could
reseed (if you want lawn).

We have horses on the land, mixing in some pigs would not go down too
well! :-) Horses are notorious for leaving sections ungrazed, hence
the need for mowing at intervals.

Sheep then, if you already have the fencing, and it will improve the
land and reduce the parasitic worms. One of the reasons we've never got
around to it is that our old hay supplier (a retired sheep farmer) used
to say "If you've got three sheep, one of them is lame".

A shepherd told me "Sheep spend their lives inventing new ways to
commit suicide".

Oh, they've got enough without inventing new ones. I remember driving
the A836 many years ago, and being amazed that with the vast areas of
grass on either side of this single-track road, the sheep seemed to
tempt fate by just standing in the centre of the road around a blind bend.

I see that all the time, (also, sheep lying on the warm tarmac) but
strangely, even after decades in rural Scotland I've never once seen a
sheep or even a lamb that's been hit by a car.

Janet