A Wire Rake

The turf on the banks was relaid two years ago and over that time a layer of thatch has built up, resulting in the need for scarification. Joss (our grass guru, formerly known as Josh) will be spending the next few days removing the thatch with a wire rake.
This is the first of many lawn maintenance jobs Joss will be performing over the next few months, most, if not all the lawns will be attended to in his autumn maintenance programme. See blog entries for last October for the reasons for all this hard work.