Lawnmower Man
O.K. So apparently I was kind of wrong. That kid with the corner market on mowing the neighborhood lawns still lives in my new neighborhood. He’s about my age now and has a cute little girl and a Pug named Bruno.
He also has a riding lawnmower and for $25 a mow, he’ll mow your lawn and every other mow, he’ll weedwhack — by the way, spellcheck doesn’t like the word “weedwhack. His little girl rides up on top of the lawnmower with him, which is probably one of the cutest selling points. I think if he could have fit Bruno up there too, he could have charged me more.
I talked to him about frequency since he’s familiar with my lawn and the neighborhood and the weather and climate. He said that my across the street neighbor gets more sun and she needs to have it mowed more often than I do — she also has a prettier lawn than I do. Still, for me that’s less mowing and less paying.
I did tell him that I need to do some work in the back yard this weekend; I still have some fallen branches from the last Nor’Easter that need to be hauled off. I also want to square off the garden in the front. I don’t know which previous home owner thought it would be neat to do the swirly non-edge edge garden in the front, but I imagine that it can’t be easy to keep weeds out of or mow next to. So, I want to straighten that out and put some edging down and mulch.
Of course, I still don’t know what’s in the current garden. I’m considering taking photos of each section and posting them here and asking people to tell me what’s what.
Unfortunately, were I’d like to plant sunflowers, there are some mysterious flowers and I don’t want to uproot them until I know what they are.
And I’m wondering if it’s too late to try to start a vegetable garden in the backyard and if not, what I should try to grow. I’d like some tomatoes and zucchini and cucumber, but what else?
