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Garden and Chicken coop in progress, update with pics
3/26/2012 6:02:12 PM
Well, I'm still working on the coop and garden. Just need to build up the coop area so the chickens can scratch about etc. Lost one today to the neighbor's dog. Don't think that will happen again.
Put in some 6' + posts, going to fence it all the way up and put bird net over the box area. Adding 4 more large boxes as well.
Berry box - currently has 2x thornless blackberries, and one blueberry bush. Will add more bb and rasberries soon.
4x8foot box of cukes
Tilled up an area and made a row and planted some potatoes just for fun against the fence.
English peas
Onions, green and sweet/vidalia.
Fruit trees - from closest to farthest - Fig (I think it's dead, but still is pliable at tip), Chickasaw wild plums I transplanted from the other side of our property.
My "row" garden - Onions in first row, Blue lake bush green beans in second row. Still working it, so should be another week or so of planting. Cabbage, corn, may even do some butter beans etc.
Looking back towards the road - yeah my home is not the best looking atm. Inside is being fixed, outside will be later this summer. BUT, it's paid for completely.
Put the back door on the coop
Put in some 6' + posts, going to fence it all the way up and put bird net over the box area. Adding 4 more large boxes as well.
Berry box - currently has 2x thornless blackberries, and one blueberry bush. Will add more bb and rasberries soon.
4x8foot box of cukes
Tilled up an area and made a row and planted some potatoes just for fun against the fence.
English peas
Onions, green and sweet/vidalia.
Fruit trees - from closest to farthest - Fig (I think it's dead, but still is pliable at tip), Chickasaw wild plums I transplanted from the other side of our property.
My "row" garden - Onions in first row, Blue lake bush green beans in second row. Still working it, so should be another week or so of planting. Cabbage, corn, may even do some butter beans etc.
Looking back towards the road - yeah my home is not the best looking atm. Inside is being fixed, outside will be later this summer. BUT, it's paid for completely.
Put the back door on the coop
3/26/2012 6:40:36 PM
Looks like a lot of work. Good job
3/26/2012 6:58:40 PM
Nice work. I like. Give those chickens some shade, though!
3/26/2012 7:46:09 PM
Originally Posted By beachcommando:
Nice work. I like. Give those chickens some shade, though!
Nice work. I like. Give those chickens some shade, though!
Yes sir, working on it. Going to enclose their area and put up a little tin for shade. They can go under the coop atm and get a little depending on time of day. Front of coop is facing west.
3/26/2012 7:46:32 PM
Originally Posted By hero2three:
Looks like a lot of work. Good job
Looks like a lot of work. Good job
Thank you sir!
3/27/2012 10:29:35 AM
Originally Posted By 83rdrecon:
<snip> BUT, it's paid for completely.
<snip> BUT, it's paid for completely.
That is so huge in and of itself.
Congrats!!
3/27/2012 12:05:51 PM
Blackberries spread from the root stock. They won't stay in that box for long.
You might consider fining a spot along the outside of the garden where they can naturally spread.
I raised some a few years ago and I wanted them to grow along a fence. They were spreading in to a raised bed that was nearby, then in to my yard.
They grew everywhere EXCEPT along the fence.
I finally got too aggressive on thinning them back and lost them all.
I really don't miss 'em. They were like kudzu.
I did the same with my mint/spearmint plantings. They spread so far, fast and rapidly that I had nothing but mint all around my house. I got medieval on them too. They all died.
I replanted a smaller crop of spearmint last year. So far, it is spreading, but manageable.
TRG
You might consider fining a spot along the outside of the garden where they can naturally spread.
I raised some a few years ago and I wanted them to grow along a fence. They were spreading in to a raised bed that was nearby, then in to my yard.
They grew everywhere EXCEPT along the fence.
I finally got too aggressive on thinning them back and lost them all.
I really don't miss 'em. They were like kudzu.
I did the same with my mint/spearmint plantings. They spread so far, fast and rapidly that I had nothing but mint all around my house. I got medieval on them too. They all died.
I replanted a smaller crop of spearmint last year. So far, it is spreading, but manageable.
TRG
3/28/2012 6:17:46 PM
Originally Posted By TheRedGoat:
I did the same with my mint/spearmint plantings. They spread so far, fast and rapidly that I had nothing but mint all around my house. I got medieval on them too. They all died.
I replanted a smaller crop of spearmint last year. So far, it is spreading, but manageable.
TRG
I did the same with my mint/spearmint plantings. They spread so far, fast and rapidly that I had nothing but mint all around my house. I got medieval on them too. They all died.
I replanted a smaller crop of spearmint last year. So far, it is spreading, but manageable.
TRG
My dad was up for the summer a few years back. He had the idea that he could contain mint in an open bottom coffee can. Yeah right.The stuff occupies at least an 8'x10' area right now.
