Today I went to a large garden centre and bought three large bags of compost that were on offer at three for the price of two. Yesterday’s bags were twenty litres but these bags were fifty litres.
Today I wanted to get the level of the run back to where it used to be so that I don’t have to keep doing it a little bit at a time. My mission was accomplished.
Three big bags of compost
Before I began I went in to check the nest boxes to see if Butterscotch had laid her egg while I had been out. As soon as looked in the nest boxes Peaches, Barley and Speckles jumped up to look too. It makes me laugh when they have to look just because I am looking. I missed the shot of Peaches with her neck down looking in the nest box but I managed a few photos of the three of them.
Peaches, Barley and Speckles check out the nest box
Nest box patrol
The compost bags are in the run
We dumped the compost in the run
I spread the compost
This was before we started building up the level
This is the level now
What a difference. I am really pleased with the new level of the run. My boot scraper on the left of the photo is no longer over hanging a foot drop. I am sure over the next few days the girls will enjoy scratching and mixing the compost with the soil.
Click here to see the history of my flock.