I wanted to make sure my new plants got the water they needed, and my husband suggested pine mulch to keep the ground moist. Of course, there is not a nursery that sells pine mulch for miles, but I knew exactly where I could get it locally.
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I wanted to make sure my new plants got the water they needed, and my husband suggested pine mulch to keep the ground moist. Of course, there is not a nursery that sells pine mulch for miles, but I knew exactly where I could get it locally.
Goats in the Garden
Hoof prints in the mud…. a dead giveaway.
We knew what was happening. Every day about lunch time, the goats would go to their favorite spot and venture out into the neighboring field to graze until their heart was content. They managed to migrate over to my garden at least twice where they ate not only the strawberries, but also every single leaf leaving only stems about one inch long.
One of the best reasons to work on the bank is to have friendly neighbors stop to comment on the progress I’ve made since we began. We don’t get a lot of traffic, but during the heat of the day while I’m sweating and working, it is so nice for my work to be noticed.
We hooked up the trailer and started loading the accumulation of seven years of destruction. Mixed into the pieces of roofing, gutters, batteries, and brass candlesticks were landscape timbers that had been used for a small round pen built by my father-in-law in 1997. Hmmmm.
Springtime has a way of promoting growth in so many ways. We see the results of growth in plants as our surroundings turn from brown to green, and we see the growth in people as they try new things.