Full steam ahead!

So, another weekend and we're all pretty tuckered out afterward...  Finally finished the coop for Sam 1 and Sam 2 to come back home.  Sam 1 trotted around the yard like she owned the place, which has had Myrtle crowing all afternoon (she's not too happy about the intrusion).  Eventually, the girls should come up with a new pecking order and we can have a little peace again...  But for now, it's crow, crow, crow.

Sam 1 & 2's new home

Sam 1 (aka Sammy)

Sam 2 (aka Fluffyfeet)

 

Myrtle complaining about her new enclosure mates

 Along with the new girls in the enclosure, Sam has put in a couple of trees.  We now have another Monty's Surprise apple on the section, and an Olive tree.  Pol wasn't much help while he was digging the hole for the tree, but eventually, it's all in place, along with some nasturtium at the bottom (good companion plant)

Monty's Surprise apple tree

Olive tree

 

Sam driving in stake for the olive tree surroun

Sam and masters 5 & 9 planted out some of the "3 sisters" in our front yard, and the lasagna garden.  This is where you plant corn, beans and zucchini or squash together.  The zucchini covers the soil and keeps away pests, the corn grows up high so the beans can grow up them, and when the beans die, they return nitrogen to the soil which the corn has taken.

They also relocated my poor sick gardenia and orange jasmine...  I'm hoping they'll survive the transplant, but they were dying anyway

3 sisters

My gardenias and orange jasmine.  To the right, in the 4 high stack of tires is evening primrose and wildflowers

 And as for the guinea pigs, no I haven't forgotten them...  Today, I finally made their hutch open at the top as well, so that I can get them out...  And just for my mum, I took a photo of Ed as well

The newly modified hutch

Ed the guinea pig

And...  Last but not least, we bought a greenhouse.  So finally, all those sad little seedlings have a new home...  Although, we're still using the barbecue for a shelf at the moment

The greenhouse