Yummy And Nutritious Grass Again

[rome_italy]

Too wet and too cold. We're only getting about 14C on a good day just now, so not good to go on the grass when it's not properly drying out between showers and it does look yummy
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when I see such wonderful houses you have and then I see our pets living into a flat I wonder if our pets are living a really happy life...
I remember when my Nan (she lived in the countryside) could resist in Rome only for 2-3 hours and with a great effort. She used to say we have learnt to live into a jail...

 

[piggieminder]

I blot my grass with a towel if it's just the top that's wet from the dew, we get heavy dew here. Obviously if it's been raining and soaked through into the ground it's no good. I only do it on a small patch that the run stands on not the whole lawn!

 

[rome_italy]

I blot my grass with a towel if it's just the top that's wet from the dew, we get heavy dew here. Obviously if it's been raining and soaked through into the ground it's no good. I only do it on a small patch that the run stands on not the whole lawn!

but don't you "ruin" and flatten the grass? yours is a very good idea, indeed, maybe with the right method. You might use the microfibre towel sold at the shops for sport; they abosorb the wet very well, I use it for drying the hair of the piggies (when I wash their butt... as they often wee and walk backwards!)

 

[Betsy]

Now that's a good idea @rome-italy I'll have to invest in a microfibre towel for when my girls have butt baths!

 

[piggieminder]

I pat it gently the grass does bend over a bit but it soon springs up again. A microfibre towel is a good idea, I just use an old beach towel I keep hanging in the green house at the moment, will have to try one next year, too late for dew now.

 

[Reenie]

waiting for you! we can go together to the park with bag and knife! just like two mad ladies!
I actually don't remember at all the situation of our grass during winter season... I hope there is something to cut otherwise my piggies will kill me Their gut is used to a lot of grass and if one day I change the diet their poo is different...
Why do you cut your grass? is it growing too long? what happens if you let it grow naturally?
My piggies don't get dry grass, I always spray some water on it, they prefer wet grass and it a bit of water was necessary during summer months for keeping the grass fresh despite the air conditioning at home. I don't have a garden, your is awasome! Actually that grass of your garden is not their favourite one... too soft maybe... they are genuine and rustic piggies with good teeth, no aristocratic salads for them
I hope your lawn will last for some months, now the seasons are warmer and warmer, maybe also in Scotland they have changed (Italy has become a tropical country... today on newspaper it was written that Italy has started the production of bananas )

The lawn gets really untidy looking if it's not cut (It's my front garden, the back is paved) I give the piggies as much grass time as I can, but to keep it growing nice and lush, it really needs to be looked after or it gets full of weeds, and in my garden that means creeping buttercup, which is poisonous if they eat a lot of it. There is a wilder patch of grass which has more of the wild grass, just at the end of my street, so I cut grass from there when I've got the lawn short. I like that it is really fresh if I cut it on the day, but I have taken your advice and cut a bagful if there's rain forecast. My house is very low down and near a river, so the lawn is very squishy if it has been raining.
My garden is actually very small compared to the rest of the houses near me. We're not in the city, so there's more space.
You're right about the weather though - It's not so cold in winter, but on the flip side, we don't get a long hot sunny summer either. A few days at a time seems to be about as good as it gets now. Can't quite manage bananas yet, but we might be wet enough for a paddy field lol.

 

[Reenie]

Don't tell anyone this Get the scissors out and cut them some!

Oh, I do that @Betsy, if there has been rain forecast. It's rained every day this week though, so I've none left . Too wet to store now.