The Old New Lawn, getting greener, May 2001

  To call this strip of ground The New Lawn is a bit of a giveaway for what eventually came to pass there. Spring made it very evident that it wasn't much of a lawn: instead the kind of open and disturbed soil where an assortment of more or less interesting ruderals may find purchase - many more than the ones sampled here for electronic cultivation. There is overlap, of course. Many weeds growing in the New Lawn are represented in electronic space by samples from other patches.

  By the end of May there was a thin, green veil of vegetation in the New lawn: docks, mayweeds, coltsfoot, thistles, grasses and other weeds.