chickenwhisperer
Chillin' In The Garden
Hello all, its been awhile since I posted on any of the "backyard" forums, as I have moved downtown and been remodeling the house...
No more chickens yet, but that will soon change as Im allowed 3 in the city now.
Anyways, got the garden in the ground during the last week of april and its doing great so far, so great that I had to spend last weekend digging up plants and putting them into large containers and rearranging the beds and such.
My garden is small, and I have 4 various tomatos, 8 various spicy and sweet peppers, sweet corn, zuchinni, pumpkin, watermelon, cantalope, 5 various spices, and a handful of various "salad" vegetables for the cooler shadier area.
Now when I prepared my garden site, I turned down to 16 inches and added a bunch of composted organic material which consists mainly of lawn clippings, yard leaves, and a ton of rabbit pellets from my 5 flemish giants.
The first batch of finished compost also had the last of the chicken droppings from when I (sneakily, shhh)did meat birds about 4 months ago.
I even hand till fresh rabbit droppings around the base of each plant 2x weekly.
My question is...
Is this compost and fertilizer gonna be enough to give me a good harvest??
Will it SUSTAIN my veggie garden until then??
Do I need to add things from a store??
Like I said, so far my garden is growing like gang-busters, and Id say my plants are all 2-3x the size of my neighbors garden, and she planted the same time and we shared the same plants.
I actually just gave her a 5g bucket full of rabbit droppings just yesterday because she came over and couldnt believ it.
This is what has me so curious... as we had a long discussion about having the plant grow as compared to it producing
I also only get sun on my garden for about 3 hrs in late morning, and 5-6 hrs in later afternoon, as there is a large tree branch in just the "right" spot as to filter the sun in the hottest part of the day(which may be a good thing too??) and the those timeperiods are also increasing as the days get longer...
Ahh, thanks to all you who made it thru my long winded post!
No more chickens yet, but that will soon change as Im allowed 3 in the city now.
Anyways, got the garden in the ground during the last week of april and its doing great so far, so great that I had to spend last weekend digging up plants and putting them into large containers and rearranging the beds and such.
My garden is small, and I have 4 various tomatos, 8 various spicy and sweet peppers, sweet corn, zuchinni, pumpkin, watermelon, cantalope, 5 various spices, and a handful of various "salad" vegetables for the cooler shadier area.
Now when I prepared my garden site, I turned down to 16 inches and added a bunch of composted organic material which consists mainly of lawn clippings, yard leaves, and a ton of rabbit pellets from my 5 flemish giants.
The first batch of finished compost also had the last of the chicken droppings from when I (sneakily, shhh)did meat birds about 4 months ago.
I even hand till fresh rabbit droppings around the base of each plant 2x weekly.
My question is...
Is this compost and fertilizer gonna be enough to give me a good harvest??
Will it SUSTAIN my veggie garden until then??
Do I need to add things from a store??
Like I said, so far my garden is growing like gang-busters, and Id say my plants are all 2-3x the size of my neighbors garden, and she planted the same time and we shared the same plants.
I actually just gave her a 5g bucket full of rabbit droppings just yesterday because she came over and couldnt believ it.
This is what has me so curious... as we had a long discussion about having the plant grow as compared to it producing
I also only get sun on my garden for about 3 hrs in late morning, and 5-6 hrs in later afternoon, as there is a large tree branch in just the "right" spot as to filter the sun in the hottest part of the day(which may be a good thing too??) and the those timeperiods are also increasing as the days get longer...
Ahh, thanks to all you who made it thru my long winded post!
