Spring mess

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As soon as the snow melted, the chickens escaped the penitentiary–I mean, chicken yard–and had a swell time scratching in the mulch. (If you look carefully, you’ll notice the chicken wire in this photo is much newer than the previous photo.) Also, you can see weeds poking through the mulch. Not only was the layer of organic material too thin and the paper layer perhaps too gappy, but there is nothing stopping the grass from insinuating itself into the bed from the other side of the fence. But the plants made it through the winter, despite being planted very late in the fall (for around here) and the chickens uncovering their roots as they hunted for tasty morsels.

About the Author

Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.

~Mitchell Burgess in Northern Exposure

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