I absolutely love my garden and enjoy putting things in and looking after it.
But since we had flooding rain here it washed away the mulch and the garden is a haven of weeds as tall as me.
In the weeds I do have some things growing that survived the masses of rain.A lot of things I put in did not do any good but there are some survivors.I don’t know how they will do though.Mainly pumpkins.
Now to clean it all up and put in a winter garden.
Hi Lina, Maybe mark out what has survived and attack the rest with the whipper snipper? Lay some mulch on top too? Just try to think of all the lovely goodies to come and what wonderfully hardy plants they must be to have survived (definitely good seed saving material!) Planting suggestion would be some colourful beetroot, kale or cauliflower 🙂
Surround the area with chook wire and star pickets and introduce chooks, or make a chook tractor. They will turn the area into a plantable desert in no time at all!
You would need a LOT of chooks in my experience!! I have 3 chooks that free range and a small suburban block and they don’t keep my weeds under control 🙁
Great idea! If ours ever gets out of control or we wish to clean up without concern for losing a plant or 2, we will be putting our chooks in. They may not clean up weeds in a yard but a enclosed vegie garden I think they would. Yours may have enough better stuff in your yard. Mine do a pretty good job of eating everything when given the opportunity.
My fenced garden area is 1/2 acre.I think I would need a hundred chooks to get that under control.And I don’t have that many.I think it might have to be the whipper snipper or the tractor slasher.Trouble is the things that are still growing.
lisanne post=339563 wrote: You would need a LOT of chooks in my experience!! I have 3 chooks that free range and a small suburban block and they don’t keep my weeds under control 🙁
Yup!
The trick is to keep them confined on a couple of square metres then move them on once the area is desertified. It works, we do it all the time. The more chooks the quicker they do it!
Do you have a portable cage thing for this? You have given me an idea and the other half a new project lol. Our chooks are great escape artists and like to go visit the neighbours!! Rather then the acre in our yard! I would like to let them around more of our yard but we don’t have a gate in this particular space and there are some dogs that roam the neighbourhood!
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