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Kate got several bales of hay (6) and pumpkins today at Green Barn, up near Isanti. \u00a0She saw Louis, who introduced us to his brother, Javier. \u00a0Javier has done a lot of work for us and will do more. \u00a0The hay will, next spring, go down as mulch over the landscape cloth around the fruit trees. \u00a0The seeds in the bales need to sprout and then die back before we can use it, otherwise we spread unwanted plants.<\/p>\n
We’ll lift the landscape cloth when we broadcast fertilizer around the trees and spray them with biotill. \u00a0It will go back down to continue its function as a weed barrier. \u00a0Once 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. \u00a0With one exception. \u00a0The bed in which I plant next year’s garlic crop.<\/p>\n
After that attention will turn to bulb planting in the perennial beds. \u00a0When that’s done, we’ll celebrate around a Samhain bonfire, welcoming the fallow time to our land and turn our work inside. \u00a0Like cleaning up and decluttering the garage.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Samhain Moon Kate got several bales of hay (6) and pumpkins today at Green Barn, up near Isanti. \u00a0She … Continue reading Leaning Toward the Fallow Time<\/span>