Good morning gardeners. I drove past the oleanders on my way home from the store, they're alive and not droopy. I can't wait for them to get big enough to shade the wall in the afternoon! I've decided to rip off the side walls of the coop and and cover with hwc next spring although I'm buying the supplies now to store in the shed. Not sure what I'm going to do about the pop door, maybe eliminate it, or maybe just do half walls and keep it. I don't think the girls would like an open space behind the nest boxes and the pop door is in that wall. Everything else is still doing ok too. I'll turn the sprinkler on in the xeriscape garden tonight when I turn off the mister. Gave the flock some watermelon today and collected 2 eggs from yesterday. It's so darn hot I don't blame the girls one bit if they don't lay at all! Tomorrow morning I have bags of soil to dump in the garden along with the bunnies litter box. 2 bunnies seems to be about perfect for the amount of poop I want for building the soil. Our soil here is either slippery clay or sandy dust; either way there's usually a layer of caliche within 6 to 8 inches from the surface and it can be impossible to break through; it's not at all good for drainage. I'm mixing various brands of potting soil, whatever is on sale or cheap, with worm poop, hay and bunny poop to fill in the raised bed to about 6 inches above the native soil. The chickens have been a tremendous help with mixing everything up. Time for work, have a great day everyone!