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NEWSLETTER

August 2015



What is it about August and parents????

In This Issue
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August



Only

202

shopping days

left until




 
Just thought you might like to know 



 

Nothing to do this month other than


Pull weeds

Spray MORE Roundup

Slow soak your plants if the rains slow down

and remember

Do not prune anything after the end of the month.  
Wait until after we get a couple of good hard frosts.
 





 




Have you seen this happening

in your yard




strange 3-4" holes that appear overnight?


Well its not moles this time.




This Time


it's






Yep







SKUNKS!!!!!


Skunks, or as some refer to them, Polecats, are normally a nocturnal (feed at night) creatures.
And, like moles they love to feed on grubs....and earthworms....and other soil insects. So, as you know, these soil critters are under your beautiful lawn and in your landscape beds so they need to dig with their front clawy feet so they can stick their little pointy noses in and smell and locate their prey.

This is normally done during the early spring so they can fatten up after a long lean winter and then again in fall so they can fill their biological refrigerator again before winter.

However, this year with all the rains we have had the soil has been very damp and the worms etc. are much closer to the surface and therefore are easy pickens for them.
If it weren't then they would be eating things like raspberries, mulberries, cherries, grapes, nuts, crayfish, spiders, mice and an assortment of eggs and you would probably never know they had paid you an overnight visit.
Oh....and in the winter....birdseed is also delicious!

So, if you wake up in the early morning hours and get a whiff of that distinctive and noxious vapor you can rest assure that you had an overnight visitor.

 However, Skunks are normally very calm and docile creatures and don't use this "protective" odor unless they are being attacked or overly harassed in some fashion.
And chances are that the harassment was being done by another nocturnal critter interested in the same food plot.








 

OR....


 did that harmless




Cute Little guy or gal





 
Kissy, Kissy???? 




just try to stop that "incessant noise" that
was disturbing his late night dinner???










 

Hmmm...well, it is something to think about you know!







 




Heritage River Birch Clump

on SALE

starting today...

ending....

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#20 gallon container
12-15' tall

Regular Price.... $159.00

SALE.... $ 99.00



 
Great shade tree

Fast growing

Use Anywhere





Beautiful Golden Yellow fall color







 
Incredible exfoliating bark

Provides winter interest



Plant a curved row for semi privacy

or





Plant in a well spaced triangle and
put a picnic table underneath...

ahhh shade! 


SO......


Better Hurry before we

say








 



A Closing Thought



"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"
                                                                 .... Erich Fromm








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