fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

[Baymule]

That’s so pretty. You are getting a lot done, your hard work is showing up and looking like a peaceful place to enjoy sitting for a bit to relax.

 

[fuzzi]

That’s so pretty. You are getting a lot done, your hard work is showing up and looking like a peaceful place to enjoy sitting for a bit to relax.

Thanks!

I'm also trying to get all the more labor intensive work done before the heat and humidity hit. Then I will be just doing maintenance.

 

[fuzzi]

While I was looking for the welded wire fence yesterday I discovered two more bales of peat moss, woo! I may start working it into the future blueberry patch area.

 

[Mini Horses]

With the raised beds close, I'd put wood chips or shavings thick on ground between. No mow or clean up then! Smother grasses. . It'll look good, too.

 

[fuzzi]

With the raised beds close, I'd put wood chips or shavings thick on ground between. No mow or clean up then! Smother grasses. . It'll look good, too.

I've been using cardboard, but I have used cypress or cedar chips in the past. They just disappear so quickly, I'd need a cheap/free source!

My raised beds were created with the Hugelkulture method, bottom half was all wood, branches, even small logs. Within a few months the wood is gone, broken down naturally.

Setup in progress, December 2023. That's the afore-mentioned carpeting in the background, where I am currently digging a blueberry bed.

Aside from the big log, the wood in the raised bed is all gone. When I turn the soil it's all...soil.

 

[Mini Horses]

Yep, that's what happens. Composted by nature.

 

[fuzzi]

Came home from church, and decided to start on the blueberry patch.

I spaced them out diagonally just under 4'.

I dug around the pot.

Added three large coffee cans of peat moss around the pot.

Dug it in thoroughly

Then I dug another 5"-6" down in the middle, added three shovel-fulls of peat moss in the deeper area, mixed it well.

Three holes prepared, three more to go...I just got a little warm and needed to cool off.

If I can get the holes all prepared before my body gives out I may transplant tonight...or I can do it after work tomorrow.

 

[fuzzi]

And....it's done!

I then put up a cheap temporary fence as I have someone coming by tomorrow to haul away the old carpeting, don't want him dragging it across the blueberry bushes!

 

[fuzzi]

I
FIXED
IT !​

The hoop coop door...

Yesterday

Today

I tried using the jigsaw to trim the edge, but it was not suited for working on the door in its position. So, I went in the shed and located

 

[farmerjan]

I
FIXED
IT !​

The hoop coop door...

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Yesterday

Today
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I tried using the jigsaw to trim the edge, but it was not suited for working on the door in its position. So, I went in the shed and located
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