BYC gardening thread!!

[chiklee]

I put my radish greens in my salads to give it spark do you? Or do you just feed them to the chickens?

 

[LordStark]

Yes they're French breakfast radishes. They're very easy to grow and mature fairly quickly. Next time I'll space them out a bit more and see if that improves the size.
I haven't been eating the leaves, been feeding them to the chooks. But I think I'll have a taste.

 

[lazy gardener]

I LOVE french breakfast radishes. I love to slice them thin, and put a dab of peanut butter between each 2 slices. Super yummy!!! I always buy a big packet of seeds, and use a sprinkling of seeds as row markers with just about everything I plant. I never do a dedicated planting of radish. Also, the young seed pods are tasty. My girls have been eating all of the seed pods during the past week or so, and there are a lot of them b/c I let a LOT of radishes go to seed.

 

[Evewon]

I'm thinking mold or mildew is potentially toxic to chickens. Or a respiratory irritant at a minimum. If you have something mildew or moldy, personally, I would not give it to my chickens or at least try to rinse off the powdery mildew. IMHO.

Thanks! I haven't cut anything back yet so I'll just take the bee balm straight to the compost pile just to be safe.

 

[City farm]

Garden revamp project going on this week. I yanked out my perreniel garden- over grown strangled with weeds. And am restructuring it into a potager of sorts. Putting in chicken friendly and healthy perreniel flowers and herbs. With some ornamental grasses for cover. The chickens have been so curious and so excited for bugs worms or whatever I unearth. Gosh they make it so fun. And you can just tell they're excited to dig away in there! Here's a before and in "progress."

Looks great. Love that you post photos

 

[Evewon]

What do you all think about feeding Mums to chickens? I know that some organic insecticides are made with pyrethrins which is derived from Chrysanthemums. I have a ton of Mums I use as annuals this time of year and thought they might be a nice snack for the girls when the flowers stop looking so nice. Thanks!

 

[hennible]

Hmmm... Mine ate fox glove with no problems. I don't know.

 

[City farm]

Does anyone have their property registered threw the National Wildlife Federation?

 

[lazy gardener]

Mums for chickens: I wouldn't worry about them snacking on them if they were free ranging. But, I wouldn't put them in the run where there is not a lot of other forage for them to choose to eat. I think the resins in mums are too high to be a safe green plant for heavy snacking.

 

[Evewon]

Mums for chickens:  I wouldn't worry about them snacking on them if they were free ranging.  But, I wouldn't put them in the run where there is not a lot of other forage for them to choose to eat.  I think the resins in mums are too high to be a safe green plant for heavy snacking.

Thank you! Definitely makes sense!