Oh, nuts.
It’s that time of the year, you
know —nuts. Walnuts, hickory
nuts, acorns. As these fruits of the
hardwoods mature, they begin
dropping to the ground, littering
woodlot floors and sending squir
rels in a made frenzy of harvest
and planting.
Yes, planting. The reality of
what squirrels do with the stuff
they hustle about, gathering,
became apparent in the lawn this
past summer. Every mowing
lopped off baby com stalks, spr
outing from the kernels buried in
the lawn last winter by the squir
rels. If we could train these
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rodents, we could do away with
our complanter.
This winter. I’d hoped to give
the squirrels some planting
diversity—as well as a further var
ied diet. I’d like to share some
pumpkin seeds with our furry
rodents, and anticipate where we
might find pumpkin stalks next
year. If I get any pumpkins at all.
Actually, there are plenty in the
patch. We watch diem nearly
every day, willing them to turn
golden before frost For while our
local growers and markets seems
to have matured pumpkins, most
of ours are still green as grass and
merrily pushing out yellow
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blossoms.
'Those pumpkins will still be
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The Farmer.
It's my fault
When the cantaloupe and melon
seeds were sprouting in the green
house in April, the pumpkin seeds
should have been right beside
them. Instead, along about early
June, 1 suddently remembered the
seeds in small glass jars on a
refrigerator shelf—past years’
accumulation saved from assorted
types of pumpkins and squash. It
was time to do something with
them.
So into the selected site they
went, a steep-banked, no
man’s-land between the old bam
and the dairy bam. It’s as unlikely
a spot for a pumpkin patch as you
could want, but is rich in unused
soil composed mainly of well
rotted manure, accounting for the
annual crop of super-weeds. One
summer while our daughter was in
4-H gardening club, she stuck a
few pumpkin seeds there to grow.
One vine climbed completely in
through an open window and
brought forth a lovely neck pump
kin, which matured hanging on the
inside of the dairy bam.
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With all the rain, cloudiness and
coolness of early summer, this
year’ already-late pumpkin patch
was slow to develop. Then the
heat and humidity of late July took
over and we could barely outrun
the vines’ growth.
Pumpkin stalks have since
threaded themselves up the outer
opening windows of the dairy
bam and crept toward the roof.
One is twisted around a window
frame and dangles a large neck
pumpkin three feet above the
ground.
Late August, an ornery yearling
heifer spent a couple of days
demolishing the far end of the
patch on her everyday forays out
side the pen. She broke loose at
least one fat, green pumpkin, may-
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be more. Fact is, the leaves are so
thick in the patch that it’s hard to
tell; a second crop of leaves has
regrown where she stomped them
down.
cows in for milking, I eyeball the
patch to try to spot orange through
the canopy of g:een. There are a
few almost-organge ones. And
several may-tum-orange-if-the
weathcr-holds ones. Plus many
not-a-ghost-of-a-change infant,
pumpkins which the frost will fin
ish. And, before Christmas, I’d
betcha.
Guess the squirrels will have to
be content with their usual winter
diet, minus many pumpkin seeds.
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