The chicken manure I bought yesterday wasn't going to do any good just sitting in a pile on my patio, so I decided that this morning would be a good time to spread it out on the lawn.
There we are, another job well done.
I'm kidding of course, laying out the bags like this helps to plan out the spreading. If the bags are evenly placed, then the mounds will be evenly spaced, and the spreading will go smoothly without having to drag a bunch of material from one area to another.
I gotta say, it must be one hell of a big chicken to drop piles of dung this size.
While we're at it with the tips and tricks, the best way to empty bags of material like this is to split it open down the middle, then flip it over and fold it in half. Then you're just basically pulling the plastic bag off the pile, rather than lifting everything up to dump it out.
And of course a garden trowel with a serrated edge is the perfect tool for the job of splitting open the bags.
On the subject of the right tool for the job, it's surprising how many people don't know the difference between the various types of rakes.
This is a garden rake. It is not for raking leaves. It is for spreading materials like mulch and compost, or for cultivating loose soil. If you use the wrong rake for the wrong job, you will have a bad time.
Anyway, the top dressing is complete, and I now have a really shitty patch of lawn in my back yard.
While I wait for the grass to grow, let's take a moment to appreciate this slime mold, which had grown on some mulch nearby and then dried up into a material not unlike hardened spray foam.
Nature is weird.
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