{"id":30533,"date":"2022-09-06T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30533"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:26:36","slug":"scything-the-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30533","title":{"rendered":"Scything the meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a small meadow area in the garden that I scythe once a year to maintain it.\u00a0 Yesterday I raked up the dried material. This area had clearly been maintained by the previous owners as it doesn&#8217;t take long before it reverts to woodland. When they bought the land in 1939 there were sheep grazing here. <br \/>Just a few pictures:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30537 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055696.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055696-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055696-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055696-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30538 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1065775.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1065775.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1065775-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1065775-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1065775-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30535 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055699.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055699-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30536 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055698.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055698-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30534 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055695.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055695.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055695-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055695-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1055695-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>Old aerial photos (norgeibilder.no) show that the garden had much less vegetation at the beginning and this meadow remnant has been kept clear from the start! The 3 pictures below were taken over a span of 70 years in 2016, 1976 and 1947.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_2016.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_2016.png 751w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_2016-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_2016-640x667.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1976.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1976.png 771w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1976-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1976-768x782.png 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1976-640x652.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1947.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1947.png 766w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1947-290x300.png 290w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bergstua_1947-640x662.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a small meadow area in the garden that I scythe once a year to maintain it.\u00a0 Yesterday I raked up the dried material. 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