Preparing for winter
Sep. 27th, 2005 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscIt's fall, and the lettuce is definitely done (long since, in fact), so I decided today to till the beds for next spring's planting. When we do this we always till in a mix of peat moss, composted cow manure, and home-grown compost.
As I was shaking most of the contents of a previously-opened bag of cow manure into the lawn cart, I saw some objects that were definitely not cow manure. Closer examination revealed that some enterprising creature (almost certainly a squirrel) had, um, squirreled away a large cache of acorns in our cow manure.
I picked out as many of them as I could find, but I'm sure I didn't get them all. Since one of the beds I was tilling is very near a large oak tree, it gets quite enough volunteer oak seedlings on its own, thank you very much, without our burying extra acorns in it.
As I was shaking most of the contents of a previously-opened bag of cow manure into the lawn cart, I saw some objects that were definitely not cow manure. Closer examination revealed that some enterprising creature (almost certainly a squirrel) had, um, squirreled away a large cache of acorns in our cow manure.
I picked out as many of them as I could find, but I'm sure I didn't get them all. Since one of the beds I was tilling is very near a large oak tree, it gets quite enough volunteer oak seedlings on its own, thank you very much, without our burying extra acorns in it.
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Date: 2005-09-27 09:41 pm (UTC)