2011 spring web version - Merley Community Centre

Playing the lute in the
garden
Until last summer, I thought of the
lute as a musical instrument. However,
the need to level my lawn
(after 30-odd years of thinking
about it !!!) caused me to discover
there was another instrument, or
better, tool, which is called a ‘lute’.
(Search the internet for ‘garden
lute’, ‘lawn lute’ or ‘levelling lute’,
and you will find this device is used
to help level lawns.) So I decided
buy one and experiment, along
with about a half ton of top soil
(50% sharp sand, bearing in mind
the clay at Merley) and plenty of
seed. An afternoon of work left me
with the top soil spread across my
lawn and a lot of patches filled with
the topsoil and seed mix. You
never know, perhaps next year I’ll
have a flat lawn. I’ll let you all
know.
Carolyn Smith - Sugar Practitioner
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