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[juuro]

Using a weed-whacker is a bit neater if one uses long-legged pants and perhaps rubber boots as well. It is not the scratches from the flying wires that I mind when I garden bare-legged, but if I don't remember to brush off or preferably take a shower, I find that I'm bringing clorophyll debris all over the indoors.

Not that the pants help very

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[annenahaymus]

I went through that Saturday. At an ungodly hour in the morning with a hangover and not even my own lawn, but that of a friend who'd let his lawn overgrow for the better part of a month. I'm applying for sainthood.

[juuro]

That's why I have a lawn tractor. It does the broad expanses and even between the planteres quite well. I only need the salad shooter for some trimming and clearing of compost spaces.

[saare_snowqueen]

At least you don't have to worry about encephalitis or borealosis carrying wood ticks (puuk) Saaremaa is infested with them.-

[juuro]

Actually, the authorities tell me that I should worry about them. They're not quite as frequent up here (yet) as on the Baltic islands or the Finnish south coast, but they are reported to occur.

[saare_snowqueen]

There is a vaccination for the encephalitic variety but not the Borealosis one. I got that 3 years ago - picking herbs for tisanes, but my doctor recognized it immediately so now I have the antibodies for both. If you are outside a lot you should think about a jab - maybe next spring. With global warming the effective range of the little bastards is moving north.