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Cutting your lawn yet? We don't need to, with 3 guinea pigs which get rotated around the lawn. They eat up our kitchen scraps too, and weeds (they lurve dandelion and sow thistle)
they play dead too, just for a laugh...she'll lie like this for about ten mins if you let her. Doh!

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

OH cut the grass 3 weeks ago and it needs cutting again already! Bernie aka Dexterdog

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Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

Your guineas are lovely Two Sheds. THats how my mum gets her lawn done too!

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I'd rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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updated 14 May 2008

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Am expecting to do the lawn this weekend.

Got the grass cut last weekend. It's really putting a spurt on now but the trouble is when we let the doggies out into the garden they just love to dig in the soft wet earth. Anyone know what dog speak is for DON'T DIG.

I cut the 'lawn' a couple of weekends ago and it needs doing again. Hoping to convince OH that some chickens in an ark being moved around the green area we call lawn will do the job for me. Please tell me/him that this is the case and I might just be a step closer to getting my chooks.

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

I've already cut the 'lawn' twice and now as soon as it dries up enough it will have to be cut again. It is positively 'screaming' out of the ground

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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

A lawn, whats that then?

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

What do you do with the currents they lay?

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

They produce 2 types of currant: soft ones, which they eat, and harder ones the next time, which we just leave on the grass...it's a small amount, probably only a tablespoon each per day (well, you did ask )
They do most of their poos in their bed (must make it warmer) and all the used bedding (shredded newspaper) goes on the heap

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

We've mown our lawn and field 3 times since Xmas, and it needs it again... already!

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"Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne

I like guinea pigs. At least they are bite sized! Sorry, didn't mean it really.

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Zebedee
"Raised to a state of heavenly lunacy where I just can't be touched!"

Just the size for a barbeque zebedee.

We have no lawn, it was a case of either drinking wine in the evening whilst sat by the pond or lugging the mower about every week, a no brainer for me really. However a chap at work has just started mowing his large lawn and he brings me in the clippings to feed my lottie compost bins.

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Mr OWG and myself have the right balance here...

I sit and drink wine... he mows the lawns!

However, he has a ride-on mower, as its pretty hard to mow 1/3 of an acre with a normal mower! (That's why he likes mowing the lawn, as he gets to drive a mower around )

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"Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne

Yup, have cut it twice so far this spring (but mainly because I wanted the clippings to start a sheet mulched bed

Yeeargh -I just realised, I got the boys to empty the lawn mowings into the compost bin - there would have been doggy doo in among the clippings - is this a major problem? The greenery was too long to go round finding everything first.

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Having recently seen the back garden paradise that exists at chez Pigletwillie, I can vouch for the fact that he doesnt need a lawn! Their back garden is fab, lots of lovely plants, a great workshop and large greenhouse, lovely big pond and waterfall, 3 separate seating areas and the best built in barbecue / fire area I have ever seen! Made both myself and Mr D turn green with envy!

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Blessings
Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby)

'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'!

The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress!
Last updated 26th November2008 - more new piccies!

I'm with you piglet, Our lawn was mulched with 3 tons of gravel about 10 years ago now it don't need cutting at all

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

Thats cos she's dead!

Seriously my Mum used to have Guinea pigs and their screeching used to drive me mad!

Can you eat them btw???

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

first cut for us this weekend... OH's job... i'll be at the lottie

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The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

They don't screech, they oink! Its cute.

They eat them deep-fried in Peru - 65 million a year, wow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3946771.stm

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

I suppose if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

I seriously fancy trying Grey Squirell burgers