Chicken Food Tower

[Phaedra Geiermann]

I refer to it as learning from others' mistakes so that I can make new, original mistakes of my own.

A reference for making better mistakes - and collectively, something great will be co-created!

 

[saysfaa]

I can't keep mine wet enough (been unusually dry winter) - needs more "green" and I just don't have it to spare right now. Thank you for keeping this thread going - its inspiring and informative both. Enough so that I keep tinkering with my efforts to make it work on my grounds.

That's what I was afraid of here in the US southeast.

I've tried potato towers a couple times and had that problem of just not being able to keep them wet.

Have either of you tried hugalkulture (saturate a partially rotted log then bury it in the compost pile)? Testimonies say it works better than other (most other?) water resevoir systems.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Have either of you tried hugalkulture (saturate a partially rotted log then bury it in the compost pile)? Testimonies say it works better than other (most other?) water resevoir systems.

My logs are becoming mushroom spawn.

 

[Phaedra Geiermann]

My logs are becoming mushroom spawn.

I thought you said: My "logo" ...and then I stared at your logo (avatar) for minutes without understanding what happened (to my eyes or brain)

 

[3KillerBs]

Have either of you tried hugalkulture (saturate a partially rotted log then bury it in the compost pile)? Testimonies say it works better than other (most other?) water resevoir systems.

Never heard of it.

I did not find that the places where I was gardening on top of ground stumps held water -- quite the reverse, actually.

 

[saysfaa]

Never heard of it.

I did not find that the places where I was gardening on top of ground stumps held water -- quite the reverse, actually.

Maybe because the stump is vertical and connected to roots designed to carry fluids to and from the trunk. I don't know.

 

[3KillerBs]

Maybe because the stump is vertical and connected to roots designed to carry fluids to and from the trunk. I don't know.

Burying a log would be a tremendous amount of work anyway.

I've been following this thread with great interest because I think it's a wonderful way to use limited space if you have the right climate.

 

[saysfaa]

Sorry to drift the thread more than I intended. . I was thinking bury the logs in the towers. I'd like to try the original concept too, maybe some with log in the middle and some without.

 

[NatJ]

Have either of you tried hugalkulture (saturate a partially rotted log then bury it in the compost pile)? Testimonies say it works better than other (most other?) water resevoir systems.

I've read a little bit about it, and it's definitely an interesting idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hügelkultur

When I make a raised garden bed I toss in whatever dead wood is handy (down at the bottom where I will never try to dig with a shovel), but I don't do great big mounds like I've seen described in various articles.

 

[Sally PB]

I, too, am glad this thread is active again. I'm thinking of a way I can do something like this in the run, since my chickens don't free range. The run is covered, but I routinely dump their water out so that I can keep the container clean. So I'd have a ready supply of water.