While the garden looks good. (Lots of photos.) Update, more pics!!!

Carol Dee

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Carol, I live in town, but built a Fort Knox coop and run after reading all the DOG/SNAKE/RACCOON/HAWK KILLED ALL MY CHICKENS!!! stories on BYC. I studied everyone else's failures before building my coop. I put 4x4" posts in the ground, skirted all the way around with 2' of 1"x2" welded wire and used plywood and hardware cloth on the coop. I bowed over 16' cow panels covered with hardware cloth for the run and it is skirted with wire too.

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@baymule I assume this will be moving with you. :) I have enough friends with chickens to get fresh eggs and not have to tend them, clean up after them or worry about them. ( Besides, I don't really like chickens! ) :hide I am kind of phobic about touching them after they get real feathers :sick fluffy babies are o.k. ;)
 

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@Carol Dee ummmm....... I built the darn thing so solid, that it will be dang nigh impossible to tear it down.....maybe the run, but I hog ringed it to death. :he
 

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update:
Picked the 1st zucchini :)
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Pulled peas that died already, planted more.
Broccoli setting side heads.
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Going to have raspberries and black berries soon. :drool
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Beans on cattle panel arch doing well. Scarlet runner on left and long beans on right
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Wild flowers and lilies are so pretty right now. :)
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Carol, everything looks fabulous! Love the cattle panel idea- those beans look super!
 

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Those beautiful flower pics would be good for the POW. Your Scarlet runners just reminded me that I forgot to plant mine. They're so pretty, even if I didn't eat them. Everything looks great!
 
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