That's for sure, I do love my chickens! I let them have the garden all winter, I lock them out about 60 days before planting, they get so mad at me! The kale plants are huge by the fall so they can nibble on that freely and it doesn't hurt the plants, we have plenty for all of us. It also gives them a little chicken sized forest to hide in.hi
we go to florida every winter so i start some things down there and then bring back up here to pa but then have to wait til the last frost to set them out, the tomatoes started producing tho(patio type) as soon as i could i started lettuce(deer ate) so i just let them have it and husband put a electric fence to keep the out of the other things but like you i was late but like i said, happy with what 'm getting, enough to freeze and will be canning before long if this weather allows me too, its been crazy here, hotter than blue blazes then storms blow up and it pours. i have several chicken tractors, different kinds in different tractors i also love the garden and chickens i think we all do or we wouldn't be here![]()
What tomatoes do you plant? I always make sure to have at least one cherry tomato plant because even in a cold year I'll have some, haha! The big ones are Brandywine, smaller ones I can't remember the name of, some Czech heirloom that taste a little like Brandywine, the plants look similar, but the fruit is smaller and earlier. I don't prune them so the plants get huge, I know they look messy but I don't mind.