chicken run

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Posted on 17th April 2010 by admin in Chickens | Gardening | Susan's posts

The chicken run come new garden bed has been completed. Running off the chicken coop and yard its a fully enclosed garden area that the chickens can free range in. The really cool part of it is that it is designed to have four enclosed garden sections enabling us to have one section free for the chickens to scratch about and poo in over a season or two, with the other three sections under cultivation and free from chicken scratching.

It was a huge feat to get it completed, but with Trevor’s usual care in design, plentiful materials from the tip and sheer hard slog it’s at last done. We have just planted out one bed so far, and let a pumpkin vine run free in the chicken scratch area. But with it being mid April, we are about to start moving on planting out the other two beds.

Green manure

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Posted on 1st February 2010 by admin in Gardening | Susan's posts

Cowpea and pigeon pea have taken off in the backyard beds that Trevor got going just before Christmas.  It is going to be slashed back eventually to help enrich the soil.

One of my favourite websites is Green Harvest particularly since you can order online.I spend lots of time on the website checking out new plants, particularly those with an H code (for hot). Check out what they say about green manure.