Well, those photo's didn't upload in the order intended... The first is supposed to illustrate the peanut cuttings planted in the last week in the areas that have been longest sheet mulched in the sesbania land. The second shows the attempt to reclear the current chicken paddock. The third shows sweet potato cuttings in the sesbania land, and the fourth the new gate into the chicken paddock.

Yesterday I spent most of my time clearing out the lower chicken paddock, trying to figure out how to make use of the fertility the chooks have lent the area. Unfortunately, despite adding lots of manure they just haven't managed to prevent the weeds from growing back... So a fair bit of machete swinging to remove the woodiest weeds and the grasses that will not succumb to the weedwhacker, and then a fair bit of weedwacking, and a bit of actual hand weeding in the bits that we had thrown in a good layer of mulch, just to you know, see how easily the weeds could be pulled. The thing is, the mulch that we threw in there has actually grown... Probably one half of the area is hono grass, which perhaps isn't too hard to remove, but then there is enough actual grass that is just too much to try to hand pull over too large of an area...
Oh, I transplanted the best looking mango seedlings into pots and put them into the nursery...
And I put in a new gate, which will make it easier to access the area, and possibly we will get that long chook tractor in there and concentrate the chooks over smaller areas and get better, uh, traction.