Posted by Craig | Posted in allotment | Posted on 06-06-2010
Tags: allotment, beans, chickens, greenhouse, hens, seeds, structure, weather
Since we want to have chickens as soon as possible, (allotment site rules say we can’t have them until we have been on the site for a year) we thought it was time to start clearing the space where they are going to live.
We moved the greenhouse to a more logical place last weekend, and this weekend started the job of clearing the large pile of assorted rubbish that the previous plotholders had shoved behind it.
We foolishly thought this would take us no more than a couple of hours, but combined with sweltering sunshine, we found that the mound of earth and rubbish contained glass, rotting carpet, stones, rocks, roots, and lots of other nasties.
We eventually cleared it by the end of the day, and levelled the ground out, so stage two of Chickenopolis, (building their coop) will have to wait until next weekend.
Once that is up, we will then build a bigger run around it, so that the ex-batts that we want to adopt will have some room to roam around if we are not up there to let them roam around our lottie!
So, as you can see from the pictures, the lottie is changing shape. We were also excited to find pods appearing behind the gorgeous purple flowers on the broad beans, and also our first pods appearing on the peas!
I can’t wait to taste the first harvest from our plot … and also to welcome the chickens when they arrive too!
Achiltibuie Garden – Hydroponic Growing Kits
Dartmoor Chilli Farm
Greenhouse Sensation
Looking good
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( especially the eggs. They were so entertaining! I loved them, even got one of my hens to hatch a brood but had cockerels and they were sooooo noisy!! Complaints from the neighbours forced me to get rid of them. Had bantams too – so cute! Hens get escaping from the run and trashing my garden too! Be warned! Hem ‘em in well! Best of luck! 
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I used to keep chooks! I miss mine still