Three hours today. Lovely sunshine but a bit chilly at 11C.
The allotment run is recovering. It's a shame more grass isn't growing but I can encourage that later. The nettle compost heaps I leave in the run are doing what I hoped' providing some bug life at the bottom. I've only weeded out the nettles and another creeper which mixes in with the nettles and the fruit bushes.
Got two decent sized apple tree saplings planted which with a bit of care the geese won't destroy. They tear the bark off and nibble any high roots.
The fruit bushes on my plot are doing just what I had hoped and the chicken alread find them great cover and head for them when I let them out on to the allotments. Two of the replants are struggling a bit but they didn't get moved at the best of times so I'm surprised none have died yet.
Lima was struggling a bit today. The two lash eggs have taken their toll. It took a couple of days for her to recover from the last lash egg she laid, but she did get back to her usual self. She edged right upp beside me when I sat on the extension roost bar at roost time and tucked her head under her wing and went to sleep.
I ushered the hens in a bit early this evening so I could catch the last fast bus back to the city. At this time of year there is an hour where no trains run, the fast bus stops and the slow bus, if it shows up, gives a half hour wait after roost time. By the end of the month I'll have better options for getting home.
