I tried it last year in only 2- 20' rows . The corn and beans did well, but the squash was a little to shaded to get fruit. My spacing was about 5' center between the rows and 30" or so in the row between the corn. I surrounded the corn every 6" with pole bean seeds and the squash was...
I had crows in my yard. Every day we were woke by them, until my new chicken / late blooming rooster started to chase them off. He would always look out for the girls and keep them and their eggs safe. I just gave him away a few weeks ago to keep the peace with next door and the crows are...
I have some Americana / ? & Americana / silkie chicks up for grabs if you want give him them and keep your rir. Some of them might be roosters. I also am looking to give away The Americana roo and black silkie roo there 1 yr. old. We hatcher 12, I was looking for only 6, so 6 can go. I'm in the...
For now I have 2 hens 2 roosters and 12 chicks (from 14 eggs out of our home made incubator). I also found my silkie hen sitting on 4 eggs.
Anyone looking for a Americana or/and silkie roo in the Orange County NY area? Free to good home.
This past Sept my 5yr old little girl and I planted our garlic (outside the fence) as I have for yrs. Nothing ever bothered it until now. The following day I looked over the garlic bed and found plants removed, holes dug, and mulch missing.....Chickens! I found myself getting hot under the...
When I'm planing the garden its to small. When I weed the garden its to big. The over all size is 24' by 54'. I grow asparagus, beets, brussel sprouts, brocc, cabbage, spinach, pac choi, sugar snap peas ( prepping the bed today) .summer and winter squash, cukes, and zukes, leeks, onions...
Can't wait to play in the dirt. We started a bunch of herbs and celery last week , this week is the peppers, then in 2 weeks the tomatoes. Here in zone 6 we need to wait till may for the frost . Sugar snap peas will be in the ground april.
Garlic in from last sept. Harvesting in july. Hope I...
Thanks so much for the warm welcome,
We have 14 eggs in the incubator. Fingers are crossed.
We put a dimmer switch on the light to be able to fine tune the heat output.
My kids and I had alot of fun building it with ideas from you guys @byc.
Thanks again,