Thanks for all your helpful suggestions.

It is a steep bank (or is that perhaps only from the perspective of someone who has lived long in the Netherlands?) - so I think we will first ask the landlord for something, and if he has no suitable machine or cute little mini-goat for us to use, i will bring a metal bladed flymo over from here....
And i will look forward to happy hours browsing and sniffing the air at Landi!