Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Putting the Laydies to Work

Need a bit of soil weeded and turned over? Sic your hens on it!


Eight hungry hennies in the tractor, day 1

I have a long-disused bed that I needed to start clearing out to prepare for an April/May/June planting of flowers. This bed is far removed from (and less protected than) our veggie garden, and as such, has been sort of ignored since we moved in almost 5 years(!) ago.

With weeds and reed canary grass getting that long and strong of a foothold, I knew that weeding this bed wasn't going to be easy. So I recruited some hard working gals to help get me started. As you can see in the photo below, they've made a decent job of it on their first pass.


The tractor, day 3, and it's path of destruction improvement.

All this, and eggs too!