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Tips, Tricks & Just Good Advice! => Good to Know! - A collection of How-To's & Sage Advice => Garden to Table - Growing Your Own! => Topic started by: SmokinKat on January 30, 2014, 12:03:35 PM
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Getting a little antsy for getting my garden going this year! Going to have to figure out how to chicken-proof things this year to avoid the little buggers decimating it all again, though. :)
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I've also (almost) got James on board for doing a smaller version of THIS in the kitchen. Fresh herbs at your fingertips! How cool!
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I really like the kitchen herb garden.. chicken wire works best for critters, unless you have big critters. Is he gonna make them from pallets? Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Q: are the herds in pots and on an angled cupboard, cool idea ;D
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Pam-- We're still tossing around ideas, have found LOTS of different set ups online, so will see what we can come up with.
Found this picture of someone reusing a pallet-- what a clever use!
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Also like the sleek look of these ones:
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And CDN, that one does look like they're in little pots on a slant. Have seen some pretty wild arrangements that seem like they'd be super messy when you try and water them.
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I think we'll go for something that doesn't dump dirt all over the floors. :)
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Thanks Kat
If I had the time and space, etc I might look at something like this.
http://aquaponicsideasonline.com/diy-aquaponics/home-aquaponics
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wow, I need to rethink how I do indoor herb gardening!
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Here is the link I was trying to find,
http://blog.backtotheroots.com/help-bring-this-to-life-kickstart-the-aquaponics-garden-kit/
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What a cool idea! Unless you have cats-- eating house plants AND swatting at the fish would just be too big of a temptation! :)
My James is looking at doing something along those lines on a grander scale on our farm-- having a fish/duck pond with a solar pump to pump water up to the garden area. Probably a few years out, but he's scheming! :)
He works for the Dept. of Transportation, and he's done a lot with bio-swells, where they plant specific grasses and plants to filter out a lot of the heavy metals and icky stuff that washes off the roads so the ground water doesn't get as polluted. He's thinking of doing something similar at our place as well, so the road runoff that runs through our field can get filtered first before hitting the pond.
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If I did that one of my cats would eat himself sick :( and than go back for more. ???
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The best way to chicken proof your garden...... eat the chickens.
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Not a bad idea!! :) They are sure delicious!
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The troublemaker ones are my good layers, though, so I can't make dinner out of them all! :) I think Pam's got a good thing with the chicken wire. They are just such clever little sneaks, we'll still have to watch them.
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Cool ideas for the kitchen garden. Kerry's been after me to do a pallet garden but I think I'm going for a raised bed of some sort. I may use pallet wood to build it...
I use the deer net to keep my chickens off plants. They don't like the way it gets caught in the feet. Other cridders don't either. I fixed it around the chicken pen so if a fox goes over the top he ends up in a loop of the net. This gives me time to get on out there and blast his a$$. The however the coons are smarter and don't get caught in it. Had to install motion detectors for them.
I think your herb ideas out by my grill area would be super cool... I may just have to follow your lead there.
Nice pics too...
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This is all I have so far for growing herbs in the kitchen... You can just take the root ends that you cut off from the green onions you buy, plant them, and like magic, they grow all new green onions! You can snip off the green, and they'll just keep on producing more. Very hardy little plants, and it's a great way to use the root that I used to just toss out!
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Obviously have a long way to go before I reach my herb growing goals. :) But working on it! Have some seeds started now.
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For the chickens I was going to suggest a nice spice rub and 250F until an IT of 165F. but....
we're still waiting for winter to show up here, I'm not ready for summer. We do not have spring in Florida.
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Hey Kat,got the garden going yet?
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Kat, I do that also, romaine, cabbage,lettuces all work, I just cut off ends, put them in water to start and in usually less than a week, tuff is growing. Pineapple too. Pam ;*))
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Pam-- really? How interesting! I'd heard of people making complicated fancy hydroponic gardens, but never realized that some things will grow in just plain old water without all the hooplah and equipment! Just seems like magic to have something grow out of a part you normally just pitch in the compost!! I'll have to try the lettuce-- but I don't think I have enough windowsill space for pineapple plants. :)
Spuds-- it's still too soggy to plant our main garden area, (still needs to be tilled, and the tractor would sink!) but I've got a couple of raised beds I need to get going soon with at least some peas and kale. We had some green onions and chives that have already popped up in there by their own accord from last year, so I'll have to work around those while I'm puddling around. My tomato and pepper seed starts are looking great so far, so I'm hopeful for them to take off well.
I want to plant some more lavender plants this year too, those are my favorite fragrance flowers.