We’ve had a stretch of mostly really lovely days!
I finally caught my Straw Guy (Barry) at the market and happily he still has straw bales available.
I’ve ordered about 30 for drop off (tomorrow I think) but we grabbed one on the spot so I could clean the coop.
First off – I am so delighted at being able to easily get the wheel barrow through the new chook run door! Its a comfortable width so I don’t even have to watch my knuckles! Having the barrow at the coop door to shovel all the pooey straw into is so much better!
Freckles couldn’t resist getting in to see what I was doing!
I did a bit of extra weeding and then dumped all the straw straight onto a couple of the unused garden beds
They won’t be used until spring so I am hoping any of the fresh manure will have broken down and aged enough by then
I did a quick prune of the Rosemary bush and stuck sprigs of it everywhere and stripped and crushed some branches off and scattered the nice smelling leaves into the straw and nesting boxes
Much better. Gets mucky quick with 15 hens!
I am trying to work out how to describe (without using swear words) how HEAVY this lump of timber was!!
Basically after I got it up into the garden I looked up to see:
Nice timing Husband!!
I wanted to use it as an edge to the garden that had the potatoes in it last season.
I started digging around the whole plot but its sodden and way too hard to do effectively at the moment. (The red soil sticks to my boots and I end up about 2 inches taller!)
So I just did this bit to get a permanent path between the patches
First a sawdust layer… should compact and help smother the weeds
Luckily I had some cardboard on hand
And finally the woodchip
I’ll wait for another day to weed the ex-potato plot then I’ll put a thick covering of straw on top.
Little by little 🙂
Hope everyone has a great week!
Cheers
