foreveryoung Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 they've trashed my veggie patch,5 potato plans (almost ready to pick), 2 broad bean plants, 3 spinich plants and 2 cabbage plants and a courgette plant! grrrrr! I could just ****************************!!! they've never got n there before!!!!!! its netted up to under my arm!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I can sense your frustration but sometimes I think you have to choose between having chooks or enjoying a lovely veg garden!! Or get that netting to up over your head!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 I can sense your frustration but sometimes I think you have to choose between having chooks or enjoying a lovely veg garden!! Or get that netting to up over your head!! frustrations an understatement, it was my 2nd attempt at the veggie gargen (raised beds as well) and it was doing soooooooooo well I was quiet proud of in! now it looks like an elephant got in and stomped all oevr it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moomin Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Bless!! I must admit my garden is not what it used to be! Next year I'm going to get loads of hanging baskets - maybe some netting as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandychick Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 : they've trashed my veggie patch,5 potato plans (almost ready to pick), 2 broad bean plants, 3 spinich plants and 2 cabbage plants and a courgette plant! You should have some lovely eggs after all those greens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve. Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 On a plus, id you do dispatch any of them, you can have a nice Chicken and Vegetable soup with no need to add any extra vegetables Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 On a plus, id you do dispatch any of them, you can have a nice Chicken and Vegetable soup with no need to add any extra vegetables i couldnt really. i was soooo annoyed last night.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickaboo Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 we've just been laying turf !!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I can sense your frustration but sometimes I think you have to choose between having chooks or enjoying a lovely veg garden!! Or get that netting to up over your head!! We've got both because my clever hubbie built a home made fence out of old pallets, to fence off our veg area. They still try and get to it by sticking their heads thru the gaps but they can't get in there I'm afraid netting is no challenge to a chicken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Slats Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 It's times like these I am glad of our steep garden. Our veg patch is 3 floors up and so far they don't even know it's there. (Scurries off to touch wood) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Watch Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 My hubbie was the same last year. Veg patch nicely behind fruit netting about 4 foot and they constantly got in, under, around it until he had just about had enough. He insisted the chooks had their own area of garden. My lot no longer have the run of the whole garden but they don't do too badly in their own area of lawn, behind Omlet netting and so far (touch wood) they've not made it over to the veg patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 But you love them really Mrs B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbey Road Girl Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I think that there's a blues song that says "if the whisky doesn't get you, then the wimmen will"... My hens demolished the garden (weeds, actually), but the slugs have finished off the rest (cherished veg seedlings). At least chickens lay eggs in return. Slugs and snail? No return that I've noticed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs G Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Oh No - I've spent ages in the garden this summer trying to grow all my fruit and veg, my girls arrive in August and I get the impression it will all have been a waste of time. Will have to get going on building some fences if anything is to survive - no longer will I have free range veggies - but as long as I have happy chickens that's the main thing Still so excited - we have just cleared and boxed a nice section of the garden to wood chip ready for Margot, Barbara and Penelope - I do hope they like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluckbok Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 ooh we know too well aswell, they just love the potatoe plant leaves!! had to barricade that off!!! little monsters aren't they! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 They have eaten all my chives again! I would love a patch of chives with flowers on it! I've got some netting up, between them and the cat they have broken it and the hens just stroll through it when they feel like! I've just bought a new lot today. A stronger one. I watch them most of the time they are out, I put them over the fence a few times, then I distract them to the opposite end of the garden with some corn, and if they still persevere they go back in the Eglu run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs chook Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Within days of my arriving, they had trashed my tomato plants, THROUGH the netting So this year we have a lovely veg patch (at the mo) - with 6ft high fencing preserving it. Just hope the bunnies don't learn to fly as their fence is only 3ft high, they are eyeing up the sprout and cabbage leaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 If you have raised beds, it is worth making a raised lid for them. WE have lids that are about 10 inches high made from 1" wood and covered with enviromesh. We have done this to protect them from both chooks and cats. We grow most of our salad crops in the front garden and have tall chicken wire in front of our climbing french beans in the back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I was growing some cut-and-come-again lettuce in a planter until Charlotte discovered it. I found her too late, she had eaten all the leaves and was using the planter as a dust bowl!! We're going to have a veg plot next year but will be building a fence round it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
