what r u planting in your garden for your chickens?

[what was i thinking]

i will be planting a wire cage around it to try to keep them out! lol

 

[vfem]

I just planted some spinach out in the garden for the chickens and ducks. I'm hoping to get plenty to freeze to give them throughout the summer. I have tons of tomatoes going in as they are their favorite veggie. They'll get the over ripe one's for sure.

The kids are planting sunflowers so I'm sure if my husband doesn't eat all the seeds there will be enough to share with the flock.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

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You can always grow sprouts in trays or jars anywhere near a window. Grasses will grow on a damp sponge, you can trim them when they're long and let them continue to grow. Sprouts can be grown in a big jar with cheesecloth tied over the mouth, rinse & moisten them once or twice a day, and invert the jar over a bowl to catch the drips.

I'm sending warm thoughts your way!

 

[Laskaland]

Anyone know... will chickens beat up hostas? Will they eat them? i was thinking of making the area around the coop pretty, but if they will just pull them out, I probably will not!

Any other veggies? I went to park seeds and ordered
organic ground cover seeds, with clover, rye...

http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/...1&langId=-1&mainPage=prod2working&ItemId=5882

I have a baaaad case of spring fevah!!

 

[WoodlandWoman]

OMG! Chickens love hostas! They won't dig them up, they'll eat them! If you have a lot of hostas and a lot of other things to eat that the chickens like better, then they might leave them mostly alone. With chickens, you just never know, though.

 

[byrandom]

We had a very nice garden last year and have decided to expand it to try to keep our (human) food cost down, as well as giving treats/food to our chickens, donkeys, goats, and tortoises!

We're planting - Red iceberg lettuce, red romaine lettuce, green romaine lettuce, 2 types of cabbage, black diamond watermelons, moons & stars watermelons, seedless watermelons (from a seed.. how ironic, lol), jack-o-lantern pumpkins, amish peas (sugar snap), another type of pea (can't remember the name!), tomatillos, 2-3 types of tomatoes, new potatoes, yukon potatoes, dragon carrots (red skin - orange flesh, slightly spicy), longfellow carrots, another carrot type (they get over a pound a piece), gherkin (pickling) cucumbers, regular cucumbers, corn, zucchini (we had some last year that were over two pounds a piece!), yellow (crooked neck) squash, okra, cantelope (more properly - muskmelon), honeydew melon, eggplant, ground cherries (new plant for us!), sunberries (another new one!), herbs (such as cilantro and dill) .. I know I'm missing some.

We have a large plot infront of the house, and then the beds around the house, where the flowers and such used to live, are going to be lettuce/cabbage patches.

We also have several fruit trees. 3 dwarf peach trees (1 produced hundreds of pounds for us last season, the other two won't fruit because they are too young), 6-8 apple trees (too young), 2 pear trees (also too young).

Edited because I left half a thought out of a sentence.

 

[Amyable]

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I was introduced to ground cherries this last summer by an organic farmer at our farmer's market and they are great! Like a little sweet fruit with a tomato texture. I want to try growing them too. And the rest of your list looks great!!

 

[Wifezilla]

Bok choy....I swear my ducks would kill me for it. I just bought a whole bunch of it one day when it was on sale. I had no idea they would go nuts when I floated some in their water.

 

[the1much]

weeds

 

[Wifezilla]

Those are already well established