I have decided that it was not at all lazy or improper of us to leave our hedgeapples lie in the backyard last fall, like this:

You see the piles of sawdust looking stuff in the photo here?

That is what squirrels do to hedgeapples when they want the seeds out, they shred them into a pile of mulch. So you see, we are not neglecting our yard, we are simply contributing to the well being of our neighborhood wildlife.

Look at the happy squirrels now:

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.