{"id":7901,"date":"2021-06-01T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:00:18","slug":"no-mow-may-and-the-2nd-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/06\/01\/no-mow-may-and-the-2nd-law\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mow May and the 2nd Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been observing <em>No Mow May<\/em> on my front lawn for much longer than Plant-life's recent campaign, and I always extend it into <em>Just Grow June\u00a0<\/em>as well, as I watch \u00a0the 2nd law of thermodynamics bring glorious disorder. \u00a0It's good to remember that gardening can only ever bring temporary order to the inherent, nascent wild.<\/p>\n<p>Each has its own aesthetic and in truth the garden is always a blend of the ordered and the disordered. \u00a0The front lawn lends itself to the wild as the soil gifted to the house when it was built was, to employ a technical term, \"rubbish\". \u00a0And we have not added to that by compost or fertiliser down the years. \u00a0At the moment it is a riot of yellow and white with creeping buttercup, hawkweed, daisies and ox-eye daisies dominant. \u00a0Then there's black medick, cow parsley, arum, cut-leaf cranesbill, red clover, lesser stitchwort, red archangel, and white dead nettle, with yellow rattle, goatsbeard and pyramidal orchids (and more) to come.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose this is \"natural\"; it's certainly\u00a0therapeutic. \u00a0What's more, I've even bought a traditional scythe so that the meadow can be properly cut when Summer's lease is over and seed is set. \u00a0All I have to do now is to learn how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been observing No Mow May on my front lawn for much longer than Plant-life's recent campaign, and I always extend it into Just Grow June\u00a0as well, as I watch \u00a0the 2nd law of thermodynamics bring glorious disorder. \u00a0It's good...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}