So that explains the plastic bottles
Last year I showed you a plastic bottle that appeared in a tree in the Gabriola woods. Since then, five or six more plastic jugs and a large bucket have appeared in the same cedar tree. It makes a good landmark, but it’s kind of odd to have a tree in festooned in plastic.
One day in the woods I met the guy who’s been hanging these plastic things in the cedar tree. Wasn’t that an interesting conversation! He doesn’t take those things into the woods; he finds them in the woods and hangs them up. Why are there so many plastic bottles? Most of them held garden fertilizer, he told me. Somebody must have been growing something in the woods over there. Oh, that something
– right!
Well, that makes sense. Why else would anybody carry fertilizer bottles into the forest, empty them, and then leave the bottles lying around? I went back to the cedar tree to get a better look at those containers. Yup: fertilizer bottles.
I can only hope that the people responsible for last summer’s Gabriola hidden garden aren’t leaving litter about the place.
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