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I ordered some chives, runner beans, gold watermelon, mosquito plant, and a few other odds & end seeds from Baker today. It is a cold, grey day. I cleaned out the coop today so that's another Gorilla Cart full of chicken manure, horse manure, hay, straw, and shavings on the compost pile. I really should take a picture of the compost pile. I am delighted and astonished at the richness of the soil out there! Pure black gold, I swear.... I'm toying with the idea of planting some watermelon seeds out there. I could either leave them on the ground, or set up a piece of cow panel and try to do some vertical gardening. I think the watermelon would LOVE the nitrogen rich soil and might do better there than in the garden which is heavily red clay & rocks. I am trying to amend it and make it better but it is just taking time.

The only hesitation I have about planting the watermelon out there is the animals... My compost pile is in the corner of my horse pasture. I don't THINK the horses would mess with it, but most assuredly my goats & chickens would tear it up whenever I let them out to free range. The chickens LOVE going through the compost pile. It's the first place they go whenever they are let out.
 
TJAnonymous said:
I ordered some chives, runner beans, gold watermelon, mosquito plant, and a few other odds & end seeds from Baker today. It is a cold, grey day. I cleaned out the coop today so that's another Gorilla Cart full of chicken manure, horse manure, hay, straw, and shavings on the compost pile. I really should take a picture of the compost pile. I am delighted and astonished at the richness of the soil out there! Pure black gold, I swear.... I'm toying with the idea of planting some watermelon seeds out there. I could either leave them on the ground, or set up a piece of cow panel and try to do some vertical gardening. I think the watermelon would LOVE the nitrogen rich soil and might do better there than in the garden which is heavily red clay & rocks. I am trying to amend it and make it better but it is just taking time.

The only hesitation I have about planting the watermelon out there is the animals... My compost pile is in the corner of my horse pasture. I don't THINK the horses would mess with it, but most assuredly my goats & chickens would tear it up whenever I let them out to free range. The chickens LOVE going through the compost pile. It's the first place they go whenever they are let out.
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The compost pile was always the first place my flock went also. They did a great job of turning it pretty much every day.
 
igorsMistress said:
The compost pile was always the first place my flock went also. They did a great job of turning it pretty much every day.
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They did a good job of turning mine too, when I had it spread out. Last week I piled it up to help it warm up some and maybe break down faster. Now it's 3 ft high so they won't do much turning but they did spend quite a bit of time today scratching away at the black dirt that's now exposed by what I piled up. Probably LOTS of bugs and worms in there
 
I gave some gray eggs to my broody hen.
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I don't know that the eggs are fertile (My roosters are 4 months old), she has 4
 

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