Eat with chickens

[Iluveggers]

Anyone with tomatoes in your garden, I use a fence post digger to make a hole where each tomato will be planted, add a handful of coffee grounds, a chopped banana peel, handful of egg shells & shrimp shells, then cover with a few inches of dirt before planting the tomato. It gives them a lot of nutrition as they grow!

I do a row of holes, walk down the row and add grounds, walk the other way and add peels, and once more for the egg & shrimp shells. My freezer has a ziploc bag for the shrimp shells that we collect from the May planting until the next May. Don’t know if it’s coincidence or not, but I have the best tomatoes on the block!

 

[629864]

We grow mostly Pink Lady (Believe it or not this variety was invented and founded 30min drive from our farm here in Western Australia…… the two original Pink Lady Trees ever in the world still stand at the agriculture research centre today)

Our next biggest crop is Granny Smiths, the best cooking apple in my opinion.

We also grow Modi (Variety From Italy) and Bravo (A dark purple variety also founded here in Western Australia!

Oh WOW!!!! Sounds like a dream!

 

[629864]

Anyone with tomatoes in your garden, I use a fence post digger to make a hole where each tomato will be planted, add a handful of coffee grounds, a chopped banana peel & shrimp shells, then cover with a few inches of dirt before planting the tomato. It gives them a lot of nutrition as they grow!

I do a row of holes, walk down the row and add grounds, walk the other way and add peels, and once more for thr shrimp shells. My freezer has a ziploc bag for the shrimp shells that we collect from the May planting until the next May. Don’t know if it’s coincidence or not, but I have the best tomatoes on the block!

Post hole digger for planting started veggies. BRILLIANT!!! I will be using this trick in a month or so.

 

[RoyalChick]

When I was a kid we always saved orange peels to toss into the fire for color and scent.

Yup. Us too. My Mom kept a metal bucket by the fireplace to toss the peels in.

 

[RoyalChick]

Anyone with tomatoes in your garden, I use a fence post digger to make a hole where each tomato will be planted, add a handful of coffee grounds, a chopped banana peel, handful of egg shells & shrimp shells, then cover with a few inches of dirt before planting the tomato. It gives them a lot of nutrition as they grow!

I do a row of holes, walk down the row and add grounds, walk the other way and add peels, and once more for the egg & shrimp shells. My freezer has a ziploc bag for the shrimp shells that we collect from the May planting until the next May. Don’t know if it’s coincidence or not, but I have the best tomatoes on the block!

I love that. Unfortunately the chickens are hooked on shrimp shells. I honestly think I would be fired by them and they would look for someone else to care for them if I dug a good shrimp shell into the dirt!

 

[Phaedra Geiermann]

I love that. Unfortunately the chickens are hooked on shrimp shells. I honestly think I would be fired by them and they would look for someone else to care for them if I dug a good shrimp shell into the dirt!

Same here! Sometimes when I peel those shrimps, I don't know who is the boss - me who eat the shrimps or they who eat the shells and the heads.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Anyone with tomatoes in your garden, I use a fence post digger to make a hole where each tomato will be planted, add a handful of coffee grounds, a chopped banana peel, handful of egg shells & shrimp shells, then cover with a few inches of dirt before planting the tomato. It gives them a lot of nutrition as they grow!

Hmm any alternatives for shrimp shells? Stupid as it sounds I'm terrified of bugs, especially crunchy ones, and crustaceans are ocean bugs. I can eat them if someone cooks and peels them but I can't touch the shells or look at their freakish faces.

 

[Phaedra Geiermann]

Good morning! Today we have papaya, broccoli, apple, and Chinese cabbage - so the chickens have some, too.

 

[Iluveggers]

Hmm any alternatives for shrimp shells? Stupid as it sounds I'm terrified of bugs, especially crunchy ones, and crustaceans are ocean bugs. I can eat them if someone cooks and peels them but I can't touch the shells or look at their freakish faces.

Actually the Native Americans used fish heads. Since I’ve never bought a fish w the head, I decided to try shrimp shells. I’m sure fish bones and other thin seafood parts would work as well. Although I throw my clam shells in the deep woods compost pile, I think they would be too thick for garden breakdown for that season.

 

[Iluveggers]

Good morning! Today we have papaya, broccoli, apple, and Chinese cabbage - so the chickens have some, too.
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This is such a good idea. Your chickens must love it!