Fall Samhain Moon
Kate got several bales of hay (6) and pumpkins today at Green Barn, up near Isanti. She saw Louis, who introduced us to his brother, Javier. Javier has done a lot of work for us and will do more. The hay will, next spring, go down as mulch over the landscape cloth around the fruit trees. The seeds in the bales need to sprout and then die back before we can use it, otherwise we spread unwanted plants.
We’ll lift the landscape cloth when we broadcast fertilizer around the trees and spray them with biotill. It will go back down to continue its function as a weed barrier. Once we’ve finished this and I’ve sprayed and mulched the vegetable beds yet bare (with leaves from our trees), the produce gardens will be at rest. With one exception. The bed in which I plant next year’s garlic crop.
After that attention will turn to bulb planting in the perennial beds. When that’s done, we’ll celebrate around a Samhain bonfire, welcoming the fallow time to our land and turn our work inside. Like cleaning up and decluttering the garage.
That will be a big task because it entails dismantling our five stall dog feeding station, used when we had our maximum number of dogs, 7, 5 Irish Wolfhounds and 2 Whippets.
