Yesterday I randomed about the place. Pulled weeds in the pineapple/peanut patch above the house, and in general took stock of the situation thereabouts.
Sally was feeling sick witha bit of hay fever or something. It is possible that she breathed in some gas from the green waste the day before, I guess. I told her to take the day to rest but even so she surfaced in the afternoon and had a go at cleaning out the nursery. Even cleaned the mulch from the Sesbania off the roof. Not sure what she did with it, but pretty good initiative, and now the nursery has some more space for her/us to propagate loads of peanut and legumes.
I tried making another barrel of biochar, but started the fire with just split bamboo from part of the old chicken fence that had blown over, and without a couple of solid logs the fire actually didn't stay alight. I guess I could have put less wood shavings in there. Anyway, I put the half charred barrel into the Knox Fort to soak up the chookshit.
In the evening I started sheet mulching the grasses that had regrown along the fenceline in the citrus orchard.
Continued that process this morning and actually used the whole 9 yards (probably it was closer to 6 or 7 yards) of mulch and a bale of cardboard I had brought back last week just to cover the fenceline area... Still, it really had to be done, since the grasses if not suppressed will invade the peanut areas... In the end there wasn't quite enough mulch to cover the cardboard as thickly as I had wanted to, so I took down the Java Plum that was going to come out sooner or later anyway, and used the brush to hold down the rest of the cardboard...