Planting a garden in chicken land.

[Indianfeathers]

I do lasagna gardening (layered beds). Every bed that I got finished making they would destroy......so i fenced off my garden from them. ocasionally I would let them in to take care of pests with my guidance and supervision. if they got cared away with scratching beds apart I would herd them out of the garden and close the gate. At the end of the season I let them all in there to help with the garden clean up. It was a fast clean up that i have ever done!! they made short work of it.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

Remember to keep your roses INSIDE the chicken yard! They eat the japanese beetles like popcorn.

Herbs that the beetles don't even notice go OUTSIDE the chicken yard. This is a hedge of geranium, lavendar, oregano and thyme(s).

I've had chickens 3 years and I finally figured this out.

Took me awhile. Of this, I'm not too proud.

Also, I think my bantams do less damage than standard sized fowl.

 

[jomoncon]

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My ladies don't eat the amaryllis leaves or bulbs. They just dig them up!

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

Raised beds = the kind on legs, up at our waist height. Tabletop gardens, I think they call them. Or, handicap access gardens.

Then clip their wings.