Blackberry mowing

About Blackberry mowing

Anyone who has kept a yard on the north Oregon coast knows exactly what the name means: give a fence line one wet season and the Himalayan canes will simply take it. Blackberry mowing works the back edges of Seaside lots, the ones sloping toward the Neawanna where lawn ends and bramble begins, cutting the growth back and mowing the grass right out to the line it belongs on. Return visits keep it that way, with mowing, trimming close to the shed and the property line, and hauling off everything cut so nothing roots again. Through the long gray stretch from October on, the work turns to clearing leaves, storm drop and overgrowth before winter presses it all flat. There is a plain pleasure in handing back a yard that has its shape and its whole footprint at once.