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⚠️ Update on Extensions for Plant Protective Covers :tongue I mentioned weeks ago that we are fighting a real problem with squirrels this year. They are getting into just about all our planters and raised beds, digging around, eating seeds, and pulling out the young plants leaving them to die...

Speaking of tall fill tubes, I recently salvaged some metal pipes that I think might make great tall fill tubes like in your pictures. Most of them are about 52 inches long, and they are 1-1/2 inch in diameter. Here is a quick picture of them... My only concern is if it is safe to use metal...

:lau I have three acres of lawn/wooded property, so I only mow on days ending in "y"! Mostly I toss the grass clippings into the chicken run. However, every once in a while, I will use some grass clippings as mulch on my raised beds.

I use grass clippings and/or wood chips. Works pretty good for me and I don't have buy anything. I probably prefer the grass clippings as they can just be cultivated back into the soil at the end of the season. You don't want to mix the wood chips into your growing soil. I get some weeds from...

If I was a better gardener, I could probably just stick my finger in the dirt and know if it was time to water, or not. However, the reason I got started into sub-irrigated planters was that I am not so good at "old-fashioned" methods of gardening. In any case, the water reservoir method just...

:clap Those peppers are looking much better than anything I have going on this year! You bucket system seems to be working well. I do have a couple of questions/comments on your buckets. First of all, do you have any way to visually tell how much water is remaining in the bottom reservoir? For...

Yes, I enjoy those photos. Thanks for posting. Understand the need to get things done outside when you can. I have been too busy outside doing stuff to make many posts this past week. Basically, working on outside projects till the sun goes down and then too tired to update some of the threads I...

FYI, I tried mirrors, colored balls, and bells as toys. My chickens could care less about them. If it did not involve food, there was just no interest in any of the toys I offered. I have had great luck with a compost bin inside the run, grazing frames, and eventually turning all my chicken run...

:old One of the great things about chicken run compost is that if I have other items ahead on the to-do list, or maybe I just don't have the energy that day, I can legitimately say to myself another day or two of composting in the chicken run will only make the run compost better!

⚠️ Repair Plastics Instead of Tossing Them Out A few years ago, I purchased a Plastic Welding kit from Amazon... Most of the time I just toss out broken plastic stuff. It's probably not worth fixing. However, today I was using a plastic watering can that had a few leaks in the bottom, and it...

I am not too surprised. It is like the shop teacher with 3 fingers on one hand and 4 on the other. People tend to get too complacent with tools they use every day. That's when bad things are more likely to happen. BTW, much respect to you gun safety instructors who teach the young kids (or new...

Thanks for the feedback. I think it's important to update posts when things come up. I really like my pallet wood raised bed v2.0 design because, as I just proved, the raised bed is holding together just fine even though I messed up and got the sidewall boards too tight and then they warped...

Thanks for the feedback. I invested in a lot of composting equipment a few years back because I had decided to kick up my gardening efforts. As much as I have spent on my equipment, it has still saved me hundreds of dollars processing my own compost at home compared to buying it in big bags at...

⚠️ Update on Filling Raised Beds with Chicken Run Compost All my pallet wood raised beds are using the hügelkultur method of filling logs in the bottom half of the raised bed, then an organic layer of stuff, topped off with a topsoil and chicken run compost mixed 1:1 for the final 6-8 inches...

:lau I successfully worked myself into a bad position as well. My run fence is 6 feet tall and I have bird netting stretched across it. Over the past few years, my chicken run litter has been filling up anywhere from 12-18 inches deep. So, now I have to bend over when I work in the run. I need...

Thanks goes to my composting chickens. They do almost all the work. But I have become an advocate for chicken run composting. If you do any gardening, chickens can be your little workers making, and enriching, your compost. I used to rototill my in-ground garden every year. I have a very nice...

⚠️ Update on Filling Raised Beds with Chicken Run Compost All my pallet wood raised beds are using the hügelkultur method of filling logs in the bottom half of the raised bed, then an organic layer of stuff, topped off with a topsoil and chicken run compost mixed 1:1 for the final 6-8 inches...

⚠️ I Made A Mistake On My Raised Beds - I Can Live With It Well, I have noticed that I made a few mistakes in my latest pallet wood raised bed builds. For those who remember, I built a number of pallet wood raised beds this past winter in my garage. Of course, at that time, the wood I used was...

:fl You got lucky, my friend. I have heard of others blowing a hole through their head with an "empty" gun. :old I was out hunting with my grandfather when I was 5 years old. I grew up with firearms from a very young age, as did most of my friends. It was kind of a rite of passage when we took...

Yeah. I have only built wooden steps, which I understand. Good luck on your project.