CHOOKS love bamboo - digging it up that is.
Gidget poses on a barrow load of bamboo roots surveying her kingdom
On the weekend I spent hours with a spade and mattock, attacking the roots of the vile bamboo some short-sighted person planted willy-nilly in the rear of the backyard.
It's as tenacious as all get out.
But if I want to plant climbing roses and fruit trees then I have to eradicate it.
So the chooks were fenced in to help me tear up the lawn and get the wretched stuff out. While they diced with injury a few times getting in the way of the spade, they also enjoyed a bounty of grubs and worms.
After eight or nine hours I'm about a third of the way through. Thank heavens it's now the working week so i have a few days to recover before the next attack session.
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