The Story Behind
Gustav was a true gardening fan! He could hardly expect that the cemetery experiment would end like this…
Gardener from God
Gustav had been gardening for many years and knew his stuff! He perfectly understood that without good fertilization, there was no point in expecting a bountiful harvest. And in general, fruit trees need care.
Humus worked especially well! This fertilizer turned the soil into a promised land for plants, shrubs, and trees. Our friend Gustav’s head was always full of wonderful little ideas, and one of them struck him right in the brain, begging to come out…
A Wonderful Garden in the Cemetery
The gardener figured out where to find so much humus that it was beyond imagination – of course, in the city cemetery! There, the entire soil consists of rot that had accumulated over decades. Plants, roots, trees, people, bones, worms – from all this came a very useful cocktail that the fruit trees would enjoy immensely. If they could smack their lips in pleasure, they certainly would!
Gustav planted peaches, pears, watermelons, and apples in the cemetery. When locals found out about this promising experiment, they thought the most famous gardener in the district had simply lost his mind. But Gustav just brushed off the idiots who knew nothing about gardening.
On the Dead Ground, Everything Grows Like Crazy!
The trees grew surprisingly fast. Apparently, the signature cemetery humus did indeed have a special power that also affected the ability to bear fruit – the first harvest appeared in just a couple of months, although there were clearly some issues with it…
The fruits looked at the world with crazy eyes and made wild faces. At night, thick white fog hovered around the trees, and from a nearby crypt came smacking sounds, as if someone was licking. It seemed that a shameless ghost was quietly stealing the harvest, and this fact greatly upset old Gustav. The gardener could only accept it, because opening the locked crypt to bash its inhabitants with a shovel was impossible due to the reliable lock. And sitting in the cemetery at night, waiting for the thief to come for the fruits, was an activity for some completely crazy people, and Gustav was not such a person, no way!
Eaten Alive
Finally, the gardener decided to gather the infernal harvest. He reasoned logically that on Halloween night no one would come to the cemetery and disturb him in carrying out his plan, and no one would point fingers and call him crazy.
Gustav collected the harvest in a huge sack. Before leaving the cemetery, he tried the apple, pear, and peach. He intended to evaluate the watermelon at home since without a knife it was not convenient at all. The fruits, by the way, were against it; they made faces and cursed in their special language. Naturally, they were against being finished in someone’s mouth, whose owner clearly had never heard of toothpaste.
The Bird That Lives in the Cemetery
But Gustav never made it home. After finishing the peach, he suddenly began turning into an owl! Soon there was nothing human left in him, but plenty of bird features appeared: a beak, wings, legs with claws, feathers, a tail – in short, the magical transformation was successful. Also, a top hat appeared on the head of the owl that just moments ago had been Gustav.
But the bird no longer cared about anything. Now the whole meaning of its existence was reduced to eating the fruits grown in the cemetery. And yes, maybe the people who called Gustav an idiot in the end were not so far from the truth…
