You heard me right…where else do you think all of those rocks come from??

Well, the truth of the matter is that you’re not actually “growing” rocks. But rocks and stones do seem to appear anew every year, even after a previous spring and summer of digging them up and piling them, giving them away, or using them for decoration in your garden.

So what is the deal with rocks in your garden or yard?

If your winter is cold enough to freeze the ground then you will probably see rocks coming up to the surface of your lawn and garden every spring.

During the winter season the water in the ground freezes and thaws several times. As the water freezes it expands moving soil, rocks, etc. around it and pushing them up towards the surface.

After a thaw, the water sinks back down through the ground leaving solids – like rocks – on the top. So as you’re readying the soil for your garden, you’re bumping into rocks all over again! Kind of cool when you think about it, how the earth moves things around. It is the same with glaciers. It is said that if you drop a rock into the ice at the top of a glacier, it will eventually pop out at the bottom.

In the northeast U.S., the occurrence of rocks popping up at the surface is so regular and expected that the folks up there call their rocks “New England Potatoes”.

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