Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

[SkyAJK]

Look like another sunshine today and I am hoping for stronger wind.
I might mow the lawn late this afternoon, long grass will cause impact crop when my chickens eat their fill. Then the flowering of the long grass causes allergy for me.

So today I will be continue with cleaning my garden...
Mow the lawn
More trimming of the lower undergrowth so that it is air out and not harbor whatever might cause my dogs and chickens harm.
Eating, lucky no cooking as I still have left over lasagna.

Edit to add - collect worm casting

 

[notabitail]

I went to Mass.
I took a nap after.
I need to rest more.

 

[sourland]

Filled 2/3 of the rabbit feeders and filled the bird feeders at the club.
Worked 2 dogs.
Am about to start supper.

 

[Evadig]

Will the muddiness reduce by adding sand?

I think you would need a lot of sand. Where I live there the soil is all clay, and it gets very muddy when it rains. I have tried adding sand in certain areas (my duck pond, for instance), but it didn't help much.

 

[Evadig]

I went to church.
I walked the dogs on Eisenhower's lawn.
I will go to bed early.

 

[R2elk]

I am thinking about this sand dune in your garden.

Mostly soil in my chicken runs and I put out load of sugar cane mulch and trimming of my mango trees, load of that. It was a continuous prolong rain so non of that mulch matter at all.

Clay is mostly under those top soil, so it does not drain well at all. We have a few dry or most a week of sunshine, then come the prolong rain and this has been a repeated thing since late last year, whatever goodness in the clay or soil in my garden, non is left now.

Will the muddiness reduce by adding sand?

Mixing sand and clay makes a soil that gets as hard as concrete when it dries. The only thing that improves sand or clay is to add organic material.

 

[R2elk]

Rehomed 14 chicks.

 

[R2elk]

Mixing sand and clay makes a soil that gets as hard as concrete when it dries. The only thing that improves sand or clay is to add organic material.

Putting down a layer of pea gravel with a drain pipe under the top soil will improve drainage.

 

[SkyAJK]

Mixing sand and clay makes a soil that gets as hard as concrete when it dries. The only thing that improves sand or clay is to add organic material.

I did put down a lot of sugar cane mulch and trimming. The prolong rain just can not fix it. I am expecting this sort of excessive weather will continue.

I think you would need a lot of sand. Where I live there the soil is all clay, and it gets very muddy when it rains. I have tried adding sand in certain areas (my duck pond, for instance), but it didn't help much.

How do you ease the mud?

A small area in my chicken run have pavers, and they got quite slippery due to the slimy mold grown on them. The old timber fence I put down so that I can walk into the chicken run without stepping on mud is good, it gives me a little space to walk on and my chickens standing on them a lot. But I can not cover the whole of the chicken runs with it. Those I put down just temporary.

 

[Evadig]

How do you ease the mud?

A small area in my chicken run have pavers, and they got quite slippery due to the slimy mold grown on them. The old timber fence I put down so that I can walk into the chicken run without stepping on mud is good, it gives me a little space to walk on and my chickens standing on them a lot. But I can not cover the whole of the chicken runs with it. Those I put down just temporary.

I put down lots of straw, pine shavings, and horse pellets (that turn to sawdust). Like every few hours would need another layer of bedding, because the previous layer got soaked through. When the weather finally dries, I rake it out, let it dry, and store it away to reuse. Do you have a roof on your run?