We knew this bad weather was approaching so yesterday Harry and I spent some time in the garden.
Our hens have a run we move around our four gardens, to scratch around, in which gives us fertilized soil free from weeds, by the time we are ready to plant our potatoes.
Harry always puts in potatoes first as he double digs the soil down for the crop.
I then plant our other vegetables after the potatoes have been harvested. It means I don't have to do a lot of digging as the ground was dug for the potatoes, forked over when we harvested them, and so I just fork it again or hoe and rake the ground ready for what I plant.
We have four plots of garden for vegetables. One has the hens on, one that has mature or the last of the vegetables we are using, one that has new vegetables in and one with potatoes that we just harvest when we need them. (Pic 1.) The last two plat will be varying in that they may be just starting, fill or nearly empty.
At some time a plot will be just resting until the hens go on it and this allows some weed growth to come through for the hens to eat. (Pic 2.)
Pic 1. far right has last of veges; middle has hen run with their old run at the top and the new rested plot; top (far left) is new garden. |
Pic 2. other side of garden - far left plot has last veges; where hens are is plot that was resting |
I put the nesting box scrapings around the seedlings to keep the ground warm as the seedlings establish themselves.
Pic 3. Vegetable garden and the muddy hen run on the far top left |
Peas are planted along the pea rack at the top right of pic 3.
I will be sewing seeds for new seedlings later in the week which I keep in the window box in our kitchen.
There is so much satisfaction in growing our own vegetables so we know what goes into them - no insecticides - and being able to harvest them fresh from the garden as we need them.
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