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I admit I have my garden fenced off from the girls, but I do love to have them in there, my little garden buddies. Sometimes they are too zealous with their work and they dig up the roots of my stuff. I have some open grid garden trays that I turn over top of new seedlings and around my perennials I make a triangle buffer zone out of cut logs. This stops the digging up of my plants. I grow a few kale in the same spot every year just for the chickens and they work those over all year! But when the strawberries are up--no chickens allowed.
My Chicken Gardening Dilemma
Please excuse the dismal condition of my backyard. It is winter, after all, In a few months, the perennials will be in flower and the whole thing will be quite cheerful. But here's my problem--and if you've got an idea, you might win a book, so read on: I've been growing very little in the ...
it seems a little bit too antiseptic and plasticy to me. and aesthetically--not that nice. you wouldn't be planting flowers in your fancy set up would you? i like to feel like i'm improving the soil and environment for pollinators and other living things. somehow this just misses it for me
But how does it taste?
Michael Tortorello of the New York Times has an interesting piece this week about aquaponics...in other words, growing your vegetables in fish water rather than soil. Some of the hobby farmers Tortorello interviewed brag about the incredible yields they get from fish droppings. And I'm all f...
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