Good morning gardeners. Two nice days in a row, wow! Most of yesterday was spent on going to my dentist appointment. My dentist is near where I used to live, a 45 minute drive one way. But good dentists are hard to come by, and this one is worth the drive. I also made a Trader Joe's stop on the trip. Did get home for a late lunch. Let my flock out for an hour to keep the weeds trimmed and the grass aerated. LOL! Then I was still able to fix my "Wee Farm" sign and stir crushed egg shells into the garden beds that will get planted with tomatoes this coming Spring. I had planned on moving the compost out of the tumbler and starting a new batch, however the compost had settled and only covered 1/3 of the tumbler so I decided to just keep adding to it. I also did a little research into making a fertilizer "tea" with the chicken poo. I was inspired by your alpaca poo @WthrLady. It takes forever for the pine shavings to break down and it's a bit of a pain to try and separate the two. So I plan on loading up a container with the morning poo shovelings, then adding water and let it "brew" over the winter. If anyone has done this in the past, let me know how it worked for you. Good golly @karenerwin you need to slow down before you collapse. You've been working so hard. I googled the deer hide tanning. If you've removed all the flesh from the hide, it needs to be laid out flat, then salted heavily. Try googling it if you haven't already. The hide may be salvageable. Good luck with that. I need to remember to cut some herbs from my garden today to use with the turkey dinner tomorrow. Today is my long morning and lunch at the Senior Center then I'm making my pumpkin pie when I get home. Have a great day everyone.
