We've had buckets of rain in Lantanaland, 170mm since Wednesday, so it's been sugar cane mulch in with the ducks, who are finally back on the lay, duck egg pasta for dinner tomorrow night, oh yes.
Another one of this small jobs that needed doing, but is still part of my grand ideas for lantanaland, was the mulberry tree. I wanted to give it a nice umbrella shape over the duck pen. It's been big enough for ages, but again, what’s the rush.
However I'm pretty happy with the result. Once it grows a bit more it'll have lovely shade and free fruit for the ducks. Of course the tree gets watered with the dregs of the ducks water, which is why it's growing like i've been feeding it steroids.
I'm allowing myself a new project this weekend though, learning all I can about clay and straw mix to coat the mesh of the chook run to provide some more shade and cover for when they are confined to the snake proof run. If it works i'm thinking that the rebuild of the big chook house will end up being a organic earth pod instead of the typical box that I usually build.
So really, no small jobs this weekend.
Lantanaland from the iPhone
Mulberry bush! Well, tree really. We used to have one in the backyard when we were kids and Mum would make mulberry jam, sauces etc. That was the good bit. The stains on clothes was the bad bit!
ReplyDeleteAnd silk worms! They also come with Mulburry bushes. That's another childhood ritual. Keeping them in shoe boxes and feeding them leaves.