Preparing for winter

[rsc]

It'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.

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[vasilatos]

Ah, animals who bury stuff. Penny Lane has squirreled (!) away infinite numbers of dog biscuits and various pieces of things she feels are important, all around the house. Roomba finds them sometimes. Such is the wheel of life.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

Our squirrels, the ones that we feed, eat about 1/2 the peanuts right then and there and bury the others. When they start burying them we stop feeding them no matter how much they beg.

We won't have any peanut plants popping up in our garden, though.

I originally wrote "no matter how much we beg" above...I think I need to go to bed.