If you need to improvise some leg protection for mowing rough ground without a basket to catch the crap try cutting the toes off a pair of holy socks.
After I pulled them on to model them it made me think of Katie, about to head out on one of her unexpected journeys. Although my Mother's Pride legs are not quite as lush and luvly
The subject of gaiters came up on Katie's hiking thread a while back and these are technically kind-of gaiters in a sense.