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Hi everyone, now I have sussed out adding photos thought I would post some of the garden now the grass has grown through the webbing, the girls free range every day from 11 am to bedtime and it has worked really well. The pansy raised border has a little metal trellis along it so they don't get in there as does the rockery at the end of the garden. But the border with all the shrubs is theirs, they spend ages dust bathing in their and generally scratching around.

 

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I think the pansies are way out of season as I planted them in February but they are too pretty to dig up, trouble is its too late for bedding plants (there wasn't much left in the nursery) so I need to keep them going until the autumn if I can.

Thanks for looking.

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Must admit hubby cuts the lawn, its greener than next doors but think thats the chicken poo!

Hi lunakiwi, nice to know someone close, what sort of chickens do you have? I actually walk at Longdown or Deerleep every morning at around 10 am, you may have seen me with my tribe - cocker spaniel, yorkie and dachshund, I am often with my parents and their dogs too. Its such a lovely place to walk.

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That's a really lovely garden, mollyripkin. I really agree that gardens and chickens can mix if you are prepared to be a little flexible and think round problems.

 

I too always end up with pansies that are way out of season but are just too pretty and alive to dig up then find that when they do look ropy (which yours don't) it is too late for bedding plants. :doh: I fall into that trap every year and every year I swear I'll be brutal next year. :roll:

 

I love your chickens and so want a blue Silkie like yours. :mrgreen:

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Cheekychook your garden is amazing, it looks really established. I'd love a more cottage garden look and did try one year but everything got eaten by slugs and snails although the girls have sorted that problem now so may try again next year and be firm and dig the pansies out before it's too late. Pansies are such cheerful little flowers though, I've been dead heading them every day and feeding them to try and keep them going.

Yes Scarlettohara the girls are from Rachael with two White girls on their way :D

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Hi, Your garden is lovely, I have 2 chickens coming tuesday! I love my garden and is easy to maintain we have a small vegetable area and lot of shrubs and summer plants, planning on letting them out when I am not at work,very excited and nervous do you have a cat? we have and hoe do they get on?.

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Hi picasso08, welcome to the forum. Yes i have a cat (and three dogs)' I'm very lucky as the cat is incredibly lazy, never catches birds but just likes to lay and watch the world go by. When the chicks first arrived she gave the run a good sniff and that was that. If she is in the garden it is her that moves rather than the chickens.

Good luck with your chickens, look forward to seeing photos, I'm sure you will love them.

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Please can you tell me what kind of netting you've used for the grass to grow through? It would be lovely to try to get some grass back in our garden!

 

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Yes, I would be interested to know that too - and do you leave the netting down or take it up once the grass has grown back? ...... or is that a really dumb question? :?

 

Ta, Sarah

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I've imagined your under grass netting would be like you get in playgrounds round the base of slides etc. i.e. left with the grass just growing through it. Is that right? A super idea, I think. :clap: I wish I'd thought of it before we got rid of all our lawn. :( Still I figured that my Silkies wouldn't mind reverting to their jungle status.

Their favourite places are under the miniature apple tree (which is 5 years old) and around the bamboo where I have a large stone that they like to take turns to sit on. We call it "speakers' corner".

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Hi, the netting came from Homebase and was £20 per roll, I think we used 7 rolls but it has been worth it. I have a dachshund who loved to dig and then the girls would use her holes as makeshift dust baths, now they are quite happy in the shrubbery where it doesnt matter. We laid it in February and it looked awful (we pegged it down with plastic tent pegs), but we filled in and seeded all the holes. I had to protect these bits from the birds eating the seed and we watered it through the dry weather. It's great now as the plastic is hidden and you can mow it normally, the dog can't dig and the silkie girls scratch around but don't do any damage. I'd definitely recommend it.

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