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I plan on two 50 x50 garden spots this year, but I am way behind. I can't plant much of anything until we get the new run fences in place. I have the potatoes planted, and this year I am trying the tire tower method. We are doing a whole chicken/garden rotation plan this year, each garden will be broken down into 8 smaller garden lots that will be planted/harvested/chicken runs throughout the growing season.
tell me about your tire tower method.....sounds interesting.
I am guessing you will use the chickens to fertilize & dig it around for you. I am interested to know how that works out. Will you have temp pens to house them or just put them in there during the day??
You always have something neat going on.
The tire tower is I am planting potatoes inside the tire and as the plant grows I will stack another tire on top and add straw/leaves/dirt whatever I have until harvest time (I think it will be three tires high when finished) and the potatoes form on the stem as it grows, you are supose to get quite a bit more potatoes per plant that way. I plan on dissassmebling the whole thing at harvest and redoing it for fall planting.
The rotating chicken run/garden the coop is in the center and has a access door in the floor (raised coop) the garden spots radiate out from the coop around it like spokes. The chickens will be in each garden approx 3 weeks at a time several times a year. Some garden spots they will only be in once a year (long term growing plants) others they will be in 3 times (short growing season plants) It is a combo of ideas, mine and some permaculture research I'v done. Eventually there will be fruit trees around each garden (8 per 50x50), a strawberry bed perimeter, and large asparagus beds lining the long term growing beds. In the next few years I would like to set up a 3rd and do grain/forage plants mixed w/ fruit bushes in the long term beds.
