If you have chickens free-ranging in your garden, on your property, homestead or back yard, you'll need to chicken proof your garden, pots, raised beds, and plants. These are the chicken-proofing ideas and designs that have worked for us in our garden over several years of keeping chickens in a garden or homestead, in suburbia or a rural setting. These will also work for … [Read more...] about How To Chicken Proof Your Garden. Protect Plants From Chickens
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What Grows Well With Pumpkins?
Pumpkins are easy to grow and can give you a huge volume of food. But what grows well with pumpkins? What can you plant near pumpkins that will help them grow better? Are there plants that will not be happy near pumpkins and do pumpkins actually have any companion plants? In companion planting, both plants help each other in some way and do not compete or hinder each … [Read more...] about What Grows Well With Pumpkins?
Food Plants You Can Grow From Supermarket Scraps
There are many, many food plants that you can grow from supermarket scraps. Don't believe anyone who says you can't. There are way more than I can even mention in this post, but I'll do my best to tell you how. Once you know how, for different plant, herb, and fruit types, you can try to grow just about anything, from seeds in store-bought fruit and vegetables, from peelings, … [Read more...] about Food Plants You Can Grow From Supermarket Scraps
