slowly soaking in!

Clover sets the nitrogen in the ground also, grows short, drought resistant. I bag the the first months worth of ‘grass clippings’ in the spring for the compost pile. It’s marinating now with a summers worth of banana skins and comfrey. In late spring…turned and screened it’s s great soil.
My grandfather taught me …” grow your dirt first”. He could look at the soil…put a small taste on the tip of his tongue and tell you the ph of the stuff.
Didn’t do the ‘numbers’ but knew the balance and how to fix it if it didn’t ‘taste’ right.

Clean slate in those weeds for next year!

Snowman gardener working overtime undercover.

But it is still coming down, I just hope I still have yummy Kale growing under there! It has thrived in the cold so far. I like the thoughts of some insects biting the dust/snow too.

My dog would uncover it from the snow and chow down. Unwittingly also leaving it open for the rabbits.

a wire fence because my dogs love to dig. I don't see many rabbits in my neighborhood, maybe all of outdoor cats get them when they are babies? Squirrels on the other hand fill the "forrest" of my old subdivision.

Believe it or not our rabbits are very well behaved. They leave our crops alone. My dog is a small 20 pound havanese …a couple of the rabbits are very close in size to him, plus they get along with each other. They don’t view him as a threat and Roscoe loves the little power pellets they leave for him. He thinks they’re treats.
I spoil our rabbits though…I’ve built hutches out of downed branches for them in the field behind us giving them a safer place for a burrow. Plus they get the winter veggie scraps that usually go into the compost.

The rabbits actually keep the cats out of the yard they can get territorial. Last winter the rabbits pooped so much it looked like a hundred pound bag of dog kibble was scattered under one of the cedar trees…deer were seen snacking on that. Winters are interesting in our yard.

... do just fine. Got straw in all their shelters.

Say of about 20 degrees or colder for about 2 to three weeks will reduce the tick population in the spring.

It all good. Hoping that happens this January or February…not now.