Carol Dee
Garden Master
John, As you already know this is a great place for all kinds of helpful and friendly folks.
How do you keep your chickens away from your plants?? My chickens will eat them to the ground !!!SuperChemicalGirl said:I actually do pretty well with cat litter buckets (and anything else I can get my hands on) for tomatoes and pepper plants, and my container ones look better than the ones in the ground. Doesn't look pretty, but I don't really care once I start harvesting!
I have to soak them daily when it gets hot here ("hot" in Maine... 80ish). They also do really well in the barrel planters, and I've gotten some plastic cow-lick buckets, too, for squash or melons that also do okay.
I've also used window planters for bulbing onions, they tend to do well in there.
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No idea... they just don't pay any attention to them unless they have veggies on them, and then I'm in trouble. My tomatoes and pumpkins really suffered at the beaks last year. I have a fence around some of my garden this year so that helps. But for some reason my herd of chickens (somewhere around 70 birds) won't bother my plants unless the actual veggies are within easy reach.desertlady said:How do you keep your chickens away from your plants?? My chickens will eat them to the ground !!!
Mine will EAT up the plants !!SuperChemicalGirl said:No idea... they just don't pay any attention to them unless they have veggies on them, and then I'm in trouble. My tomatoes and pumpkins really suffered at the beaks last year. I have a fence around some of my garden this year so that helps. But for some reason my herd of chickens (somewhere around 70 birds) won't bother my plants unless the actual veggies are within easy reach.desertlady said:How do you keep your chickens away from your plants?? My chickens will eat them to the ground !!!
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