This year, as we often do, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving with three feasts: one with friends in town on Thanksgiving Day, our own meal, which we made Friday, and another meal with friends on the bay. That last will be on Sunday, making this year’s Thanksgiving a 4-day holiday.
A much appreciated note of gratitude (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
Lately, we experience a victory in our never-ending battle against spruce roots.
Our region, so recently scoured by glaciers, geologically speaking, has very thin top soil. This means that our trees anchor their great height with widely spread root systems rather than growing deep in the ground. This causes all kinds of problems for those who live among them and hope to grow vegetables, or even lawns.
We have very little grass on our homestead, none of which we cultivate or mow. As such, we don’t worry much about roots in the yard, except when they risk our health.
Spruce roots in the yard (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
