dear diary

WEATHER

Actually sunshine! After a week of rain and rain and more rain, and everything going squelchy and squishy and ugh... So damn tired of the rain at this point.

CHOOKS

Chooks seem healthy. Bub-bubs (Goong) isn't going through the tunnels to roost at night. She's been finding alternative places to roost, and I'm not sure why. Tonight I found her refusing to go along the south-side tunnel, and in the end I had to carry her out and put her to bed.

Both Goong and Siyao are laying, with Shan occasionally producing an egg. Coldie and Hainan are just swanning around eating food and being layabouts. *sigh* But I don't have the discipline to kill them just because they stop laying. It's a problem.

PRUNING & PREPARING

I trimmed down several of the trees in the backyard. Going to plant some FENUGREEK in the CREPE-APRICOT as a green mulch (maybe radish, maybe mustard, too).

PLANTING

FENUGREEK.

RIPENING

ORANGES (still!)

HARVEST

ORANGES?

NOTES

Have the composting workshop this weekend.
1. worm farming
2. Composting + collecting bits and pieces for composting
3. Sheet composting using chooks
4. Black bin composting + pest management
5. making a compost
6. Weed teas

Need to:
set down woodchips across the paths
chip all the tree branches that have gathered up over the last few months
collect more leaf litter
collect more kitchen wastes
tear up newspapers/cardboard for composting
clear out the chook coop underside for nitrogen mass
pull apart the HEXABED