So you’ve decided to fill your garden with joyful chickens…Here are a few tips on raising chickens naturally…Happy healthy chickens make for healthy eggs and less hassle. Shelter: Chickens will need adequate shelter. This will depend on your climate and predators. Chickens will need a draft-free dry coop with adequate ventilation. If your climate is cold a heat source should be available for winter. A solid concrete floor or a raised coop are ideal as this will ma...
Before we moved to our new home we discussed having chickens. We would get a few for eggs and perhaps even a few meat birds…BOY WAS I WRONG. I should have known better that with my personality those birds would win me over – BIGTIME. We moved into our new home and that summer decided to get 3 hens of almost laying age off a local farmer. We would not name them in fear of getting “attached”. When we spoke of them it was the red one, the black one and the mu...
I saw a post earlier asking “where our advice is coming from”. Part of the discussion suggested we list our hardiness zones to help out. A few weeks ago I donated to arborday.org. While on their website, I found a hardiness zone look up. This will work for those of you with US Zipcodes. Those of you outside the US might contact arborday.org request a tool that works for your location. Keep in mind that these zones are based on your zip code only, so your micro-climate probably ...
Through the wonders of modern science we’d been able to travel forward into time so that we might check on the chickens and see how they progress. It’s a fantastic thing, stepping out of the time machine and being able to see what will be. Stunning I must say. So, lets move on… Here are my chickens in the year 2012. This is Dot, the Silver Laced Wyandotte which we picked up. Oddly enough she seems to have the ability to clone herself at will. As if you look to the b...
I began pondering last fall about what I could do with a patch of earth that lined the whole side of the house and a portion of the driveway. This strip gets lot of sun and heat, all day. What came to mind was a Container Garden. Now I am not talking about just filling a few pots with flowers and calling “it a day”. What I have in mind are items that I can repurpose; or unusual garden pieces; or items that are just pretty to place among the flowers and various containers. So to...
These are some shots of the water gardens and the Japanese garden sections of the Montreal Botanical Garden. Lotus Lotus Lotus Lotus pod Waterlily Waterlily Bog plant There was a nice rose garden here as well. Just one shot though. They were past their prime. Gardeners outside of the Japanese Gardens – manual labour 100 year old bonsai maple 50 year old bonsai maple forest 210 year old bonsai 70 year old crape myrtle bonsai little...
It’s ONLY been around 4 and a quarter months since we got the baby chicks. I figure they’re 130 days old or so.. Well, was out tending the coop this morning, which I do every morning, and there to the side of the waterer was an egg.. Hmmmmm.. I didn’t expect any eggs just yet! Seems the red sex-link really DO become active layers much sooner than anyone else does. Needless to say I’ll be building the nest box today.
Permaculture is a set of techniques and principles to design and implement sustainable human settlements. It is dependent on place and each garden is different, with diverse climates, resources and needs. This book seeks to aid the gardener in finding the potential of his/her garden, treating the entire property, including the buildings, as part of a living and dynamic ecosystem. I recommend this book to anyone who is also trying to “grow their way to freedom”. The book is geared toward a...
Someone sent me these pictures. This is a flower from Thailand. It is also a protected species. It is not allowed to be exported. This will be the only way we will be able to view this flower. Some info on the flower.
Why would I container garden? Good question! Suppose you were in this predicament: You resided in an apartment, or maybe you live in a condo with no yard space? What if you were like so many gardeners who actually have a great garden space, but just need “a little something” on the front porch? A container garden is exactly what you need. Many gardeners will even strategically add containers to their flower garden or amidst their flower beds, just to fill a void that nothing...
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