BYC gardening thread!!

[Meaghan]

Figured out yesterday how to keep the neighbor's chooks out of our seedlings and also have them outside! A few leftover cubicle grids from when we had our bunnies caged (they free roam in their own bedroom now) and some wildlife netting should do the trick! Got half of the pots and poked holes in the bottoms of them. Now just to get holes in the remaining pots and move them outside.

We also bought two different types of muskmelons at the farmer's market last Saturday, and they are doing much better outdoors than indoors. Hopefully this will improve the seedlings we currently have indoors.

 

[Peep_Show]

The four chicks in the brooder managed to escape in my project room and do a walkabout, hid pretty well as it took a bit to find all of them. The only damage appeared to be some errant chicken poo on the carpet. HOWEVER, I noticed today when watering the growlight seedlings that all the pepper sprouts are just denuded stems. Ahem. It seems my husband's chicken Annie the Ameraucana did a little free-ranging and took out this year's pepper crop.

 

[hennible]

Oh shoot!

 

[Kraftcrazychick]

Ugh! I'm expecting my peeps to escape one day too. If they get lose in the room I have them in I could get chicken poo on sewing machines, yarn, and even my weaving loom.

If they wandered across the hall they could probably take out my plants too.

Perhaps you should tell Annie about that movie of her namesake and how nobody wanted her. You skip the redeeming parts to get your point across.

 

[vehve]

If you start some new ones now, you'll still get a crop... Peppers are nice that way, they don't care what time of year it is, you just might need to move them inside before they're ready for harvest.

 

[hennible]

True

 

[lazy gardener]

The four chicks in the brooder managed to escape in my project room and do a walkabout, hid pretty well as it took a bit to find all of them. The only damage appeared to be some errant chicken poo on the carpet. HOWEVER, I noticed today when watering the growlight seedlings that all the pepper sprouts are just denuded stems. Ahem. It seems my husband's chicken Annie the Ameraucana did a little free-ranging and took out this year's pepper crop.

Oh shoot!

That's what was left of them. I once mentioned the idea of sprouting pepper seeds for the chooks, and was advised not to because they are in the Nightshade family. Obviously, Annie does not seem to care about such details.

 

[hennible]

Lol

 

[Kendrain]

Everyone looks like they are getting a great start. We pruned out fruit trees about 6 weeks ago, got the new garden plot tilled, and getting ready to plant a garden and flowers for the bees.

 

[Peep_Show]

We're getting a nice soaker rain this morning and, well, through to tomorrow. Day off from yardwork and the yard gets watered to boot! Trudged out to the coop -- note to self, sweatshirt needs jacket over it..kinda heavy when wet -- and gave the hens their morning vittles. All is good in their world as they're warm and dry and getting room service!

We recently put in some new fence and yesterday when we were working in the yard several of the neighbors came over to admire it. It really adds some polish to the property. The folks really like what we're doing as it's a cute hobby farm (not like the villages big commercialized ag businesses) and, well, it's just a unique property amidst all the sagebrush to have a little oasis of happy green and produce. (Most neighbors are retirees and opted to have no garden yards) The parcel used to be noted for having coyotes lounging on the big lawn (nickname "grassy knoll" "coyote acre" "bunny haven"), but now it's known as "the place with all the fruit trees."

Bordering the orchard (left the no-climb off so coyotes could
traverse and do rabbit duty)


Surrounding the veggie compound


Matching hitching post... Nobody on this parcel has ever had
horses, but the visitors sometimes ride in

our next project is adding a low border of chicken wire to keep
the rabbits out of the veggie compound