Chicken Hutch Bunny Coop
My bunny has a hutch. She gets to hop around. This is very good. She thinks it's pretty fascinating. I am satisfied with my efforts, but I'm not yet done because there are lots of pokey bits on account of it's mostly enclosed with hardware cloth and that shit is stabby-ow if you don't pay really close attention. I figure I'll probably be done with major alterations on it by next week as bunny and I figure out what works and what doesn't. I dragged it inside this afternoon because it was too hot outside and I wanted her fluffiness to try it out--it looks very out-of-place now.
The chickens have taken to wallowing in the left planter and have seriously damaged the tomato and pea population. They also ate my lemon balm and basil. They were still small plants, but c'mon, wtf are the chickens doing in the planter?! On the up side my upper-garden endeavors have become self-sustaining and are expanding into fluffy clouds of short tomato plants. The lettuces are ready for sustained harvesting, which means it's time to plant another set. There are also a couple of enthusiastic squash plants of unknown origin that I didn't decapitate early on because there was space to spare and I was curious. They have some very large, prickly leaves now and are threatening my lettuce row. I'm impatient for them to bloom and set fruit so I can see what they are.
The first row of the retaining wall got laid out this weekend. It's mostly leveled, too, which wasn't easy to accomplish. When I finally get out there and level out the last five or so blocks I can start building the wall for real, and save the hillside from its slow descent. And when it's all done I shall plant some perennial flowery things to cascade down the front. I've always wanted that.
I'm thinking about putting up flier-ads for knitting classes and/or gardening employment. Both of these things would be very good, and I'm both vaguely hopeful and utterly petrified by the entire idea.
The chickens have taken to wallowing in the left planter and have seriously damaged the tomato and pea population. They also ate my lemon balm and basil. They were still small plants, but c'mon, wtf are the chickens doing in the planter?! On the up side my upper-garden endeavors have become self-sustaining and are expanding into fluffy clouds of short tomato plants. The lettuces are ready for sustained harvesting, which means it's time to plant another set. There are also a couple of enthusiastic squash plants of unknown origin that I didn't decapitate early on because there was space to spare and I was curious. They have some very large, prickly leaves now and are threatening my lettuce row. I'm impatient for them to bloom and set fruit so I can see what they are.
The first row of the retaining wall got laid out this weekend. It's mostly leveled, too, which wasn't easy to accomplish. When I finally get out there and level out the last five or so blocks I can start building the wall for real, and save the hillside from its slow descent. And when it's all done I shall plant some perennial flowery things to cascade down the front. I've always wanted that.
I'm thinking about putting up flier-ads for knitting classes and/or gardening employment. Both of these things would be very good, and I'm both vaguely hopeful and utterly petrified by the entire idea.