Clean up efforts continue at the pond at Struan Farm and its surrounds. I've been eyeing up ten years or so worth of fallen leaves under the oak and black walnut trees outside the Cottage. The trees are beautiful in autumn--the oaks typically turn red and the walnuts a brilliant yellow. But it must be said that the ground below hadn't seen a rake for about a decade. The volume of fallen leaves was such that it killed the grass, so definitely time to remedy the situation.
You will know in seeing this that the nests of leaves around the trees wasn't my preferred approach. My "helper" suggested that I rake the leaves into circles around the trees to avoid having to pick them up. He works full time during the week, and the last thing he really likes doing on weekends is picking up after my major clean up projects. I understand and am (somewhat) sympathetic to that, so have done what he's suggested. Just hoping that winds don't undo six hours of work, and thinking maybe a temporary burn pile in this paddock might solve everyone's problems. My people will talk to his people and we'll sort that out. Grass seed has been spread.
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