Lack of rain has been the big news here and with the wildlife as well. Not only is it dry, but hot too and when the ground dries out the temperature of the soil rises. Often I think that the high soil temperature is what destroys young plants more than the drought. Anyway, food for thought.
The usual routine is to feed the deer the table vegetable cuttings, plus a bit of sweet feed, and of course water. The challenge with water is to keep the raccoons from using it as a swimming hole.
Hauled two loads of brush to the pile, which is starting to recover the size it needs to be in order to shelter the wildlife.
Wildflowers are quite scarce due to the lack of rain.
No trees have shown up as a result of the planting of at least 100 acorns. This is definitely one subject we will have to research more to find out why they will not get started. As a result, we have concluded that the cover of the land in the area today is about what it looked like 100 years ago, as not new tree growth has occurred.
Bought one bag of sweet feed, 6 gallons of diesel fuel and one 20 lb sack of sunflower seeds.
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