new-mown

We're thinking that we may try it next year: cutting with the mower, windrowing the new-mown hay, and then storing it loose in a shed.

THIS week's programme features The New-Mown Meadow reel with fiddle player Paddy Glackin and flautist Patsy Hanley.

Our very first kiss, meals of new potatoes just dug from the garden served with fresh peas and asparagus dripping with melted butter, the fresh and biting relief of lemonade on a hot day, walks in woods fragrant from recent rain, the scent of new-mown hay in summer fields, calamine lotion spread over blistered skin, the delighted screams and shouts from a children's playground.

Here again, I'd take honest country aromas, whether new-mown hay or a well-maintained goat barn, rather than something squirted from a can.

Walking on a new-mown lawn by the sea might not seem all that unusual.

Lovely new-mown grass and herb aromas followed by a splash of grapefruit.

I think it's terrific: with its smell and bone dry taste of new-mown grass, ripe melon, peach and pear, with a hint of lime and at pounds 6.49 it's excellent value too (from Oddbins).

Richo Cech of Horizon Herbs in Williams, Ore., describes the smell of sweetgrass as "vanillalike or new-mown haylike." and attributes the scent to the plants coumarin content.

Fresh as new-mown grass, the torrontes gives a grapefruit spiciness and the chardonnay backs that up with a creamy fleshiness.

If you like a wine with the nose of new-mown hay and that is pungent and complex on the nose, here's a Sauvignon for you.

Inside, the air was redolent with a smell of new-mown grass that was as heady as a glass of Champagne.

The apple-scented blossom, The new-mown grass so fresh Reminds me of long country walks, The corn in fields to thresh.

"He'd start his Rose Bowl broadcast (on radio) with 20 minutes on a falling autumn leaf and the smell of new-mown grass, then do 11 minutes on Red Grange, turn the mike over to his assistant and go to the kitchen for a late lunch, then return just in time to let you hear the USC band march off the field at the end of the game.

Often he could be seen, with wisps of fresh hay tied round his brow, tossing the new-mown hay.