Sowed indoors
- x2 trays of mixed lettuce, spinach and radishes.
- kitchen herbs
- aubergine
- peppers (red and banana)
- chilli (cayenne and fresno)
- melon (honeydue)
- alpine strawberry
Planted Goji berry bush.
3.2.11
OMG, soooooo windy tonight! just before turning in I heard strange noises coming from the garden, turned on the garden light, where has the Green house gone? I eventually found it next door. Managed to get it all back. Didn't sleep well, kept dreaming of chicken coops being blown away like in 'Wizard of Oz'.
Checked for damage in the morning and this is what I found:
Have decided on trying to build a timber green house from pallets, to follow in projects later.....
Started to clear corner plot for future green house.
Finally put together raised bed for asparagus, emptied out my compost bin and planted x5 asparagus crowns, 3 of them are already 4 years old so should get a good harvest this year.
11.2.11
My other half called me at work today, sad news: Specky my lovely chook has died, she had a prolapse, so I guess she had an egg stuck again, looks like she was always going to suffer with this problem R.I.P. Specky.
Still really muddy out there, put down more woodchip in runs.
Forgotten method in coops
Have done lots of research on whats called the 'Deep litter method' inside the coops, apparently its less work and is actually healthier for the chooks, so, provide deep litter with wood shavings etc and every few days throw in some corn and the girls turn the whole lot over for you. sounds great but what about the smell I hear you ask, they say, there will be no smell?
22.2.11
When I returned home from work I found Scatty beaten up with a large hole wound on her right bum cheek, she was shaking and hiding, think she was in shock. Have brought her indoors and gave her sugar water through a syringe.
23.2.11
Put Ginger and Red back into the main coop to free up Hennies Hospital for Scatty. On my return home from work Ginger has a bloody bum and Red is scared witless so I have put them back into hospital together with Scatty. Extended the run in the hospital. Got antibiotics for Scatty who is not looking good.
28.2.11
Today I noticed Becky being chased around in the main coop, on closer inspection she has a wound on the top of her tail feathers and found Suzi has a bloody bum. Sprayed them both purple but the usual cannibals keep going for the wounds.
I am sooo fed up with this now, I put Scatty, Ginger and Red into the main coop and pulled out Rocky, Amber, Bluebell and Maggie and put them in Hennies Hospital which I have now renamed the Lock down Isolation Prison!
Altogether again, not a good month!!!
