A bit of protection
I’ve been watching the chicken’s bum feathers get blasted around by the wind despite the windbreak cloth that we’ve installed, so last weekend we grabbed a few native shrubs to start a bit of a good looking and not too expensive shrubbery to assist them to scratch around unmolested by the breeze.
So far we’ve installed (from right to left, and really just so I have a record of what they are) Griselinia Broadway Mint, Griselinia L. Whenuapai, Pittosporum tenufolium “Oliver Twist”, and Pittosporum “Stephen’s Island”.
Four is about all I can install in a day without my wrists cracking from hitting rocks while digging, so that’ll have to do for now. Although I suspect we’ll need a few more to stop some of the other breeze directions.
And now I have a record of how big they started off so I can see if they’re actually growing.