Yeah this weekend should be the tipping point. I sharpened my spade and shovel last night. Gotta do pruners and loppers tomorrow. The root masses on the plant are like 6 inches deep under another 6 or so inches of dead stalks. Plants have been here probably 50 yrs? Gonna be fun
Your quail lay the prettiest eggs! I'm way behind schedule on my aviary. But I found a kid to help dig out the invasive plants so hopefully that fast tracks me
My uncle's a contractor so he has all the tools. I've helped him do work at our house, I just lack the upper body strength to hold things. I'm totally fine hammering, snipping, drilling, sanding, caulking, painting, and planing. Plus I'd rather him be there to help set the posts in cement...
Oh also I remember you mentioned something about free spec/plan drawing programs somewhere but I cannot find the post. Unless i hallucinated it. If it was real can you tell me about them? Gonna have my uncle pick up lumber for me and he needs plans to he knows how much to get. Kind of hoping...
Make sure you compost that deep litter stuff looks like primo nitrogen content for a compost pile :thumbsup
I bought a few baby plants today despite having nowhere to put them presently: a low growing manzanita and a coffeeberry bush. Have to do some research on the coffee guy to make sure the...
Those are too cute. I'd love to be able to do cool metalwork stuff. Maybe one day I'll take some courses...
Btw how did the paint on the HWC go? Or did you not get to do it yet?
Just gotta get rapid growing stuff...I'm thinking of seeding clover and maybe water cress through the whole thing for nice nutritious ground cover. I'm sure I'll be doing a LOT of experimentation
@CoturnixComplex is gonna help me out with hatching eggs/chicks when I make my mind up about which will work.
Yeah they will have a little insulated nest box (not anticipating much use out of it) and then maybe some apple teepees :P Now I just need to uproot some baby manzanitas off the side...
CUTE!
The area that I'm clearing has St Johns Wort, blackberry, grape, and some other ground covery stuff but I might see about getting a manzanita bush to grow there or maybe some blueberries??? But it is probably 60% shade during the daylight so food stuffs might be out of the question. I've...