I have finally found what I am REALLY good at......

oh, my chickens don't get to go to my garden, I am afraid they would eat the one tiny minuscule green pepper that is growing. I hope one day to pick that small little thing and have a taste.
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My rooster is 25 weeks, not much noises coming from him, my hens are clucking aways and can't stand for him to be away for even a minute. and yes I know what you are thinking, but he is definitely a rooster.

I live in Georgia and the drought is full on and water restrictions are tight (water table is low here and well too expensive to dig right now). The lovely red clay is just LOVELY for growing crabgrass, and that is it! I am hoping with my major pooping machine chickens that I will have more fertile ground by next planting season.
 
I feel your pain, Mac Momma. I personally seem to excel at the #@%^^$#!! burmuda grass. With a healthy crop of crabgrass too. Sadly neither will actually grow in the yard in the bald patches. Clearly the flower and veggie beds are a much better spot for decorative crabgrass and burmuda grass.
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I can handle the crabgrass. A few minutes of weeding generally takes care of that. It's the *&^%^$#%^ burmuda grass with the underground runners that's making me crazy. If only the chickens would eat that. I keep telling them it's like chicken caviar. So far no one is buying it. Little brats.

I can't get anything to grow other than that. Kazillions of dollars in seeds and plant packs and all I have to show is the crab and burmuda grass. I'm starting to think it would be cheaper and more efficient to just beat my head against the wall.

Sigh. Is there a 12 step program for this?
 
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I don't know about 12 step program but the beating of ones head against wall sounds like an indeed more beneficial activity. My DH keeps saying "Its the clay, its GA heat, its.........(fill in any attempt to sooth)...." I love him, I do. But, my grandma has this garden that is magnificent and she said "I have always just planted and let it go, just do the same!" I guess one year after just planting and letting it go, I will grow something that I can eat.


Yes, Bermuda is grand too, spend some time this a.m. getting at that. FUN !
 
I dont care what it is aslong as it is green. I even have wild untasty strawberries growing on the "lawn". Its green therefore i like it.
My yuckies ate all my peppers and most of my pumpkin(and relastives) leafs. I just replanted last week.
 
We have terrible clay here, too, only it's tan, instead of red. Composted chicken litter has worked wonders for my garden beds. Any other compost works great, too. Even sand or peat moss can improve clay if you have a special planting bed you need immediate help with.

You can't beat compost, though. The organic material you put in loosens up the clay for the plant roots and makes a nice texture. It helps hold water in the soil when it's dry and helps it drain when it's wet. It also feeds the plants and the worms will come and multiply. The castings of the worms also feed the plants, plus they aerate the soil and I believe they also secrete something else that makes plants grow better.

Mulch can help when it's hot and dry, too, even in the veggie garden.

If you keep adding compost every year you have a garden, it will just keep getting better and better. As for the crabgrass, well, :aww
 
I bow before the Queen and request an audience.....to say that the folks on the sister site, The Easy Gardener, would LOVE to tackle your gardening problems....and you could probably still retain your title!
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THAT'S what you could grow!!! You could help the site grow!
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I just let my hens out of jail, deeming the garden large enough to survive them, and in hopes they would eat the scourge of potato bugs and larvae. They walked right past them with barely a glance and tore through my mulch! Today I show them the axe and chopping block, as an incentive....
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Know any tastey dishes that call for crabgrass?
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Is crabgrass green? If so it is probably growing in my yard. I have dogs, terriers, I don't care what it is so long as it covers the yard so my guys don't come in muddy.
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Yeah, gardening, just not working great in this family yet. 1st house in Ohio we actually did decent, but too large for a family of two. Moved to TN, wanted to try raised bed gardening, got some logs from the woods and filled with a dump load of dirt, again too big. We had two pepper and two tomatoes plants that survived DH's black plastic weed barrier/solar heater, general neglect, various wildlife, and the drought. Moved to IN, going to try container gardening to stop making the garden too big. We have three scraggly tomato plants in some upside down buckets. Is it too late to plant?
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