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That soil looks so good, I wish I were a plant! :lau

I have a solid roof over my run. Some rain/snow will blow in, but not enough for composting purposes. At lock up, I empty out the chickens' water bowl inside the run, as long as the temp is above freezing. I don't want frozen ground in the run. When it's cold enough to freeze, I dump the water...

I'll be harvesting the run compost mid-April or May. I want to be able to get a shovel into the ground. The run is somewhat shaded, so the ground can be frozen longer than out in the garden. I'll have to see how much compost I get out of my "let it sit all winter" pile. That stuff is going on...

My run is covered. I empty out the water bowl into the run at lockup to help add moisture to the compost/soil. I pick a different spot each night. But I don't do that in the winter, when the ground is frozen, like right now. The dirt in the run is quite dry, and the chickens dust bathe in it. I...

That's what I do.

Same here! I'm aiming for not buying much of anything. I saved some tomato and butternut squash seed, and will again. Plant my own seed potatoes too. But not buying compost... oh yeah!

Tomorrow and Tuesday are going to be really warm. I have a lot of stuff to do in the garden, but I also plan to water the run. I brought my watering can down from the green house so that I can get a good soaking over a good area. We'll see what the chickens think of it raining in the run!

I was adding buckets of weeds to the chicken run in the summer, and dry leaves in the fall. Stuff was getting scratched around, broken up, but not really composting. Then it dawned on me: it is all dry as dust in there, because I put a roof on the run. So now when I dump out the waterer at the...