The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

I bet you will find something to do with them

He put the big heavy ones on the burn pile. I helped with the biggest ones.

 

[maddysmamaw]

My garden is just off the porch, down the steps and about 10 steps from that. Handy is good!

Yeah it is. I put out stuff every year in it, trying different things, but my perinnials are my pride and joy. The oregano is four years old now and huge. Wild and shaggy. There are chives everywhere, and chocolate mint smell when you walk by it.

 

[maddysmamaw]

I have herbs outside the front door. Chickens get them out of the back door....

Only certain chickens are allowed in the garden during spring. They’d eat all my lettuce. Rosie, Dora and Boo Boo are my gardeners. I pull the weeds and they follow along, aerating the soil and eating all the fat grubbies.

 

[ronott1]

Only certain chickens are allowed in the garden during spring. They’d eat all my lettuce. Rosie, Dora and Boo Boo are my gardeners. I pull the weeds and they follow along, aerating the soil and eating all the fat grubbies.

They do eat everything!

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[microchick]

We have an abandoned Christmas tree farm next door to us resulting in a lot of seedling pine trees on our property. I love pine but the ridge soil here is so poor that they grow to a good height and then die. Two years ago we had a big one die near our pond. 24" diameter trunk easy. Since the back yard slopes down into a ravine and we worry about soil loss, we had the idea to cut down the dead pine and cut it into 10 foot lengths. We burned the slash and DH drug the lengths of trunk around to the back yard and deposited them where the yard ends and the timber begins for erosion control. Two years later and we are starting to see soil building up on the yard side of the timbers. We have several more big pines that aren't thriving that we plan to utilize in the same way.

Nothing goes to waste around here.

I have a large Rosemary plant sitting in a south window along with a new basil that I started. I love fresh Rosemary and Basil especially when I make oven roasted potatoes and squash.

Plan this year to grow mint around the coop. Maybe some Zennias. Does anybody know if mint will work as a vermin deterrent if it planted in pots or do you have to plant it directly in the ground for it to work?

 

[maddysmamaw]

I want to try the mint as deterrence this year. Don’t know if it will work with my chocolate mint, but bugs don’t eat it. They don’t bother the oregano, either. I plant too much basil every year. I make a lot of pesto, lol. My garden is much like my brain, a bunch of everything in no particular order.

 

[CapricornFarm]

View attachment 1284141 View attachment 1284142 View attachment 1284143 View attachment 1284144 I want to try the mint as deterrence this year. Don’t know if it will work with my chocolate mint, but bugs don’t eat it. They don’t bother the oregano, either. I plant too much basil every year. I make a lot of pesto, lol. My garden is much like my brain, a bunch of everything in no particular order.

Looks beautiful!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Scg how did you train your pup to only hunt sticks? Shes so sweet.

Oh, she hunts everything. That mouse from Saturday? Yeah, we found it yesterday, dead where she left it. It did not survive being ripped from its home. I feel terrible about that.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh, she hunts everything. That mouse from Saturday? Yeah, we found it yesterday, dead where she left it. It did not survive being ripped from its home. I feel terrible about that.

Don't feel badly, there are millions of other mice chewing their way into peoples houses and barns within the sound of your voice. One will not be missed!