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Hallowe'en Garden for Kids and Critters

by Dusty the GardenCat, edited by Traute Klein, biogardener

If you make your garden critter-friendly for Hallowe'en, you can leave the decorations in place all winter long.

Let Dusty the Garden Cat give you some suggestions.

Hallowe'en Garden

It's me again, Dusty the Garden Cat, saying hello to my friends.

It is almost Hallowe'en, one of my favorite days of the year.

One of my neighbors, a black cat called Midnight, gets some really spooky ideas on that day. He thinks that he owns my garden. I really don't mind because he wakes up the next day knowing that it was just a dream which he has once a year.

Would you like to get your garden ready for Hallowe'en? You might as well decorate it ready for winter. Let me give you some ideas.

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Winter Garden for Kids and Critters

To decorate your garden for us critters in October, you just have to make it critter-friendly for winter.

Let me give you some suggestions:

Sunflowers: If you set some sunflower seeds in your garden in the spring, they will be standing up tall and make wonderful landing spots for birds. I bet you, though, that the blue jays have already picked off all the seeds. They are too greedy to share with anyone. Well, I don't like sunflower seeds anyway.

Birdfeeder: If you have some trees in the garden, you could hang a birdfeeder from the branches. Your parents can help you with that. We cats are not good at hanging things.

Winter Scarecrow: Those look great for Hallowe'en and all winter long. Maybe your dad can help you put one together with a couple of old broomsticks and some colorful clothes which your mom will let you use.

Hiding Place: If you can find some branches which were pruned off a tree, you can lay them in a corner of the garden. When the snow covers them, the rabbits can hide in the snow.

October Cats

Don't worry about arranging something for us cats. We do our winter relaxing in our warm house. When we are in the garden at this time, we are busy supervising the other critters to make sure that they do not hurt each other, and of course, we have to keep chasing away pesky mice. Those critters are never welcome in my garden, not even on Hallowe'en. I hate mice and so does my biogardener.

Other Hallowe'en Stories

Hallowe'en Art for the Young at Heart

How to make Hallowe'en cards out of scraps of material and magazine pictures.

How About Eating Your Jack-o'-lantern?

This article will tell your mom what to do with pumpkins after Hallowe'en.

Full Moon Madness

The full moon affects some people in strange ways not just at Hallowe'en.

Pumpkins, not just for Hallowe'en

2003: How to grow huge pumpkins, squash, and cucumbers organically.

© Traute Klein, biogardener