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The chickens are doing my work for me in the garden today.....working it UP.

Same here!!! Ours bloomed even past several frosts before it finally went dormant. I have great hopes for it, it seems pretty healthy. My DIL "cleaned out the garden" this fall and removed all the perennials I had purchased for her, both full price and discount, and even those she and my...

Gonna post this vid that @lazy gardener posted on my own forum the other day to give you all some ideas for winter composting with your chickens. If you can't do it in your coop or run, there are other ways to do it effectively. This is sort of what Joel Salatin does with his beef barn and...

Make compost in yer chicken coop! That's what I do all winter...that and drool over seed catalogs, draw endless garden plans that never...ever...make it to the actual garden and talk about "next season" with anyone who stays awake long enough to listen to your whole plan.

Planted some very healthy, big raspberry canes in my garden today.....sweet courtesy of Lazy Gardener! Also planted some very pretty and healthy looking garlic from the same source. Everything pretty frosty under there but I covered well with wood chip and leaves in hopes the roots still...

Got the garden covered with an inch or so of mulched leaves and have covered over the hoop structure there and will be using it for further leaf storage, as there was nothing growing there anyway. Finally opened up the garden for the chicken's use and they are finding both things of...

Spread 11 bags of mulched leaves on the garden and around two apple saplings. Got those off the curb in town....love this time of year!

Yesterday I arranged my cattle panel tomato trellises into a hoop structure so I can cover it in plastic for the winter. Planted all my remaining romaine lettuce seeds in there, along with spinach, broccoli and carrots. I know it's likely too late to get any good growth there but one never...

I'm glad to see someone else getting theirs in at this late date like me....I'm just getting mine worked on today and am hoping that the lettuce and such gets big enough before true cold weather hits.

Our yellow squash were fine...I've not tasted the butternut, cushaw or pumpkin yet. The watermelon were all tasteless things...not worth the growing.

Split off chives and relocated several of the BES to different locations. Pulled up the last tomato...a volunteer that had taken over the front flower bed, a huge monster of a plant. Transplanted some strawberries...still getting berries on the ones that have a red flower. Didn't get my...

NIce!!!! I've always intended to grow loofah gourds but never got around to it. What will you do with all your loofah? My sis and I used to infuse them with homemade soaps and cut them into nice big soap/loofah cakes for sale. If I grew nothing much else this year, here at the end I...

Took lots of pics of today's activities...it was kind of neat to see the mess get transformed into clean. First I'll show a few pics of the before and then the after...then I'll show some of the in betweens. Before... Stop for a commercial break to model my GW garden hat on Mom....by best...

Finally done moving garden debris and weeds out of the garden.....15 heaped up, tromped down, cartloads full...hauled off to the coop and spare pen. Mountains of it...WAY more than last year, that's for sure. The chickens have had a ball in there today...was good to watch. I'll put netting...

Now up to 7 heaping cartloads of debris hauled to the coop. The last cartloads will be placed in the spare pen...should be two more in there. Then I hope to have time to put together my cold frame and dump all the materials I've been collecting for it for the past several months. A cartload of...

Cleaning out the garden today...not even a tenth done and already deposited two heaping cartloads of stuff in the coop. Those birds won't be walking on the ground for weeks! Every year I promise myself I won't let the weeds takeover near the end of the season and every year I break that...

Helped my grandgirl in her garden, pulling weeds and such. She's grown a great little crop of moon and stars watermelons and a few flowers, along with tomatoes, beans, peppers, rhubarb, onions, squash, chives, basil, lavender, and flowers. Wall to wall of weeds and watermelon!!!! My...

I never have and it's kind of pretty....but I'm betting it's the moth of some nasty worm that will eat the garden, isn't it? Will be working in my son's little BTE garden today, pulling Bermuda grass and cleaning out old vines. Tasted his watermelon last night, of which he has 4 HUGE...

LG, I LOVE those!!!!!!! Where have those been all my life????? :th And not a bit expensive, considering all other things used for hinging those things. Those would even be great for attaching the hoops at the top of the arch a hoop coop...they would keep the tarps from abrading against the...