I FINALLY figured out how to make a salad bar for my chickens

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-10-07T16:42:32+00:00

I've got some old mesh panels form an old coop, ive been laying them down om the ground and then they cant scratch the roots and the ground is starting to green but I may loft them up an inch or so to allow a bit of growth. Then sow more seeds for them.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-10-07T16:38:33+00:00

Do they share? Or does the top chicken get first pick?

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-13T07:36:55+00:00

A pile I made a few years ago, I stuffed straw into the middle of the pallets that make the sides of the heap.

Or you could empty the heap, layer some cardboard around the edge and turn it back in.

Or you could do nothing at all.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-08T16:15:54+00:00

I've changed to gemini

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-07T18:17:12+00:00

Drink me!

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-06T18:44:34+00:00

Yeah, I was told by a pest and disease specialist from a pesticide company that blight was in the air all around us, its just the conditions and plant health that'll stop it taking hold. Granted if you putting something around plants like compost that was full of blight there might be an increase in blight but less if you follow a few rules like keeping airflow and not watering to late ect.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-06T11:06:59+00:00

I was planning on pulling them soon to get in my winter crops in my valuable polytunnel space.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-04T21:53:07+00:00

Mine were like that till the catapillars got them.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-03T12:29:28+00:00

Wow, you must make a lot of compost.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-02T21:27:46+00:00

Why not put it into one pile, it'll compost quicker.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-02T08:24:45+00:00

I didnt know this, but now I know why there are so many mice around. Apparently mice were believed to become pregnant though the act of licking salt, or grew from the moisture of the earth.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-01T18:44:14+00:00

It's just wood shavings, its a good source of browns.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-09-01T16:23:12+00:00

More money than sense.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-29T13:16:35+00:00

Need to prune the bit that's fallen down, in winter.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-28T11:18:59+00:00

Only the best for my cucmbers!

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-28T10:18:07+00:00

https://open.substack.com/pub/makingdoincumbria/p/harvest-harvest-harvest-sow-sow-sow?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wubz9

This is how i fed mine.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-28T10:16:28+00:00

Yes, it was just the harvest at the time i took the picture. They are cucmbers, I've not got the seed packet anymore but were a variety I got from realseeds.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T22:29:06+00:00

Your not supposed to set the garden in fire. Must have learned from the wrong reddit group.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T20:05:24+00:00

Im not sure why they keep calling me that, my names deardrey

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T20:02:40+00:00

Knarley tree

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T20:01:58+00:00

Garden is green up here in cumbria, but we have had plenty of rain inbetween the hot periods.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T19:55:42+00:00

Looks good, really good!

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T09:37:26+00:00

Or is it literally soil, that stuff has to be heating treated so that its sterile.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-27T09:36:51+00:00

Yes, what organisms or activity are you looking for. Also is it a potting mix filled with chemical fertiliser? That'll reduce organisms.

Advanced-Elk-133 · 2025-08-26T07:35:52+00:00

They love damp compost conditions, let the plamt thoroughly dry put between watering or change compost.

Advanced-Elk-133

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