We collected acorns in October.
![acorns](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC00669-1024x768.jpg)
First these…
![acorns](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC00676-1024x768.jpg)
…and then these – about 300 acorns in total. Some of the acorns were already sprouting, lovely. 🙂 We collected them from the ground, under big oak trees, here in our home village.
The first two pictures I took in October, the rest of the pictures in this blog post I took today.
![acorns planted](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC00771.jpg)
So, we planted the acorns in our garden, here…
![acorns planted](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC00775.jpg)
…and here.
And we also collected some acorns for the land that my boyfriend now has in the region of Etelä-Pohjanmaa – South Ostrobothnia, about 180 kilometres north from our home, that is to say, we already planted the acorns there, into the forest ground. There’s a certain spot or place, an island actually, where broad-leaved trees are growing in the forest, but there are no oak trees, not yet…
So, this is all an experiment, with these acorns, just nice and interesting.
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I collected spruce cones, too. These were on the ground in our yard, on the driveway. We don’t have big spruce trees, but there are spruces just outside our yard. I started to collect these just because I think that they are lovely, but my boyfriend said that we could try to get seeds from these as well. Well, that’s a good idea, an interesting experiment, too. The cones have been drying inside the house now.
![emptying a compost bin](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC00776-e1541333728130-768x1024.jpg)
And I was shoveling compost, emptying a compost bin a bit today. We have this year-round composter for kitchen (and garden) waste.
![emptying a compost bin](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSC00780-1024x768.jpg)
We shovel the compost into this container, where the process continues, and in the end, it all goes back to nature again. 🙂
-Leena