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    Your 2026 Garden

    THe fence is good to keep out the neighbors & the neighbor's dogs. Unfortunately all birds, squirrels and feral cats, or the neighbor's cats, can hop right in. Those darn fence top runners!😉
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    Your 2026 Garden

    It looks like the city will be turning on irrigation in the first week of May so that's when I will be planting.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Very informative information coming through. We get a few millipedes & centipedes here. We get a lot of pill bugs & they love zucchini. If the zucchini touches the dirt they get them. I have to check my zucchini every day & make sure the new ones are sitting on the vines, not on the dirt. The...
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Due to mild weather here in Nampa, we were pleasantly surprised to see Broccoli from last year still growing & putting on new florets. Also, I buried some of the lettuce stems with a few seed pods on them. I just figured they'd compost, but there is small Buttercrunch lettuce seedlings coming...
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    How much to build this?

    We took our 9x12 storage shed & it became the coop, with an added 6x6 run. This is for 3 Bantam hens. We will be adding 3 more Bantam hens in June, but before that we are adding an extra 6x9 run off the other side of the coop.
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    Idaho?

    Nampa in the Treasure Valley part of Idaho
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Beautiful!
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Maybe wait a bit on the planting. This year you got the weather we usually get. We had about an inch of snow all winter season long. Totally unusual for the Treasure Valley. It only dropped to the low 20s. It usually gets down to 2-12 degrees. I will plant May 1-8, all outside, & most will grow...
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Has the weather improved in CA?
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    Nampa ID

    Followed you & Direct Messaging you.
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    Nampa ID

    Thanks for the intro @Debbie292d 💞
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    Your 2026 Garden

    We don't get rain very often here & usually not much. It wouldn't put much in the barrels & it would just dry out right away. We had one when we lived in W WA. Lots of rain there though. This lower part of Idaho is considered a high desert. Rain is scarce.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Here in the valley we have automatic irrigation that is fed from canals that run through town. Just last year they opened up the gray water treatment facility. The treated water feeds into the canals now. Hopefully it will be enough for us here. The canals have run low before. The outlying...
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    Your 2026 Garden

    I feel for the rural areas. They will be hurting & if they're on well water they could run out. I was talking on the phone to a friend in W WA. I mentioned I could tell it had been raining. She said, Oh no. I said that was a good thing here. So little moisture this year. We need some ground...
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    Idaho?

    Sorry, Treasure Valley here. I get mine on Hen Day from Dunlap's in Caldwell. They are all hens @ 10-11 months old. Takes awhile for them to warm up to you, but most do.
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