Meet Foghorn Leghorn, uncontested King of the new saffron patch. I was up early digging manure and shot rocket into the sandy soil and making deep trenches to fill with grass clippings in preparing the new saffron beds and all the Leghorns wanted a part of it.
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| Foghorn Leghorn in saffron patch |
I've been waiting for the saffron to come for half a year and finally it arrived in the post, all soft and brown and silky. I've read that saffron doesn't like to be out of the soil for too long and needs to go in a well composted trench. I'm leaving paths in the bed for access from all sides without compressing the soil. Question is, how am I going to keep these chickens who seem from digging up the saffron...
go Foghorn!
ReplyDeleteFoghorn is pretty set in his ways. Rather wary about stepping up to the automatic self service feeder. Jumps backward at the clang as he steps on the ramp. Me thinks the hens will teach him as they are more desperate for tucker, he mainly concentrates on strutting.
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