4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Aga n Chickens]

Took this picture of the salad bed this morning.

 

 

 

Over the winter we moved the cube and run to this end of the garden so that the fence protected them from the wind and rain.

 

Once they were moved back to their original place next to the patio we dug in lots of garden lime and let the weather settle the ground.

 

A month ago we started planting, and this is the result.

 

We have been picking the red lettuces at the front of the picture for over a week, more lettuces went in last week and the latest ones are under the cloche. The cabbage plants have now hit the top of the netting so we need to get out the builder balls and construct a larger cage.

 

I had started off a pot full of cut and come again lettuce to use until the garden lettuces were ready, but those leaves were in compost and are still not ready to pick yet !

 

Just goes to show the difference a spot of chicken poo can do.

 

Can't wait to see what effect if has on the beans we hope to be planting out this weekend

 

Christine

[Lesley]

Wow! that's looking good!

 

When we moved to the smallholding we still had our house to sell. In the summer, the chicken run area (large WIR) was a riot of tomatoes and sunflowers! - the best I'd ever seen!

[Matthew]

We've a suspicious patch of grass on the lawn that grows twice as fast as the rest of it

 

 

.. it looks like the sort of growth you get if a body is buried...

 

.. honest officer, its only where the chicken run was for a couple of weeks..

[chickencam]

 

I put loads of compost from our bins on the raised beds this year and the salad leaves and radishes love it. Those bins have quite a bit of poo put into them.