How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Shady gardening

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Shady gardening - OT

Hmmm, really? Like water coming downhill after a rain? It's not that much of a hill.

The spacing works better to run the planter beds uphill, toward the top of the property. That's the direction the sun travels and that is the way the open space is laid out.

Georgia

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--- On Sun, 2/27/11, CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Shady gardening - OT
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 8:02 PM

Georgia, You will want to put your rows across the the up hill garden area, not up and down it, to prevent run off of water. Do you have chickweed? That might be an idea to add to your garden for your birds. You can use scissors or hedge clippers to cut it without taking out the roots.
I use my area that gets shade part of the day and dappled sun light for a chick weed patch that I weed. I also plant my celery, lettuce, kohlrabi, on the edge of this area. This is where I put my 2nd planting of cukes too. As the sun moves with the season this area is perfect. It's also why I want to frame it in electric netting cranked up at night! I am so sick of feeding the ground hogs/woodchucks and deer. I find my chickweed my most valuable feed plant for my chickens. You cannot feed it if the plant is stressed by heat and drought, nicotinic acid concentrates in the plant. Dr. Fulton at MSU cautioned me on this.
I water my chickweed. It's high in vitamin e and other nutrients. In 3rd world countries chickweed is a diet staple too. I've seen it in the grocery store and cannot remember what they called it. I just remember that it's good for us. Cathryn

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