How are the veggies coming along?

[AHPP]

21 minutes ago, Steven P said:

I might be tempted to take the floor out too

 

Do they actually need a floor or can it just be a load of perches that they hop across to get to the laying box?

[Steven P]

22 minutes ago, peds said:

Bury flat the thickest mesh you can afford around the entire outer perimeter, or just lay on the ground and let the grass grow through it.

 

 

Hens like to scratch in the ground so the horizontal fence should be outside the run?

[peds]

It should be outside the run, yes. It's to stop foxes digging in.

A layer inside is great too, if you have the space available in the run. The girls will find somewhere better to dig anyway. 

 

🦊🌱_] 🌽  🐓

 

Like that

Edited September 22 by peds

[david lawrence]

Electric fence mesh or a couple of wires round the enclosure

🦊 ⚡️he don’t like it

[difflock]

The Breadfruit are coming along nicely!

Only problem is getting  out the front door.

To add, about a fortnight ago, as we were leaving the house I remarked to my wife, that I was going to teach the thug some manners by chopping it off, "just here" and as I indicated where it was for getting the chop, I noticed something different, the beginnings of the fruit buds/shoots.

Phew!

Edited September 24 by difflock

[difflock]

😊

[sime42]

15 minutes ago, difflock said:

😊

Fantastic. I've never seen one of them flowering before. Are you sure it's a Bread plant though, looks like a Cheese plant, a Monstera.

 

 

[peds]

Should grow both, then you'd just need a chutney plant and you'd be all set 👍

[difflock]

Some,

Yes a Cheese plant, a Monstera, which I thought produced  breadfruit?, having briefly googled the image.

That porch behind the 2 story high glazed front to the house, must have been hitting 30 deg, at head height of recent, and as humid as all get out, since I closed the upstairs windows on the landing.

It is probably actually hottest in the Spring and Autumn, with the lower Sun throwing the rays better in through the vertical glass.

And other than that, pure benign neglect/ aka survival of the fittest!

Though I do randomly feed with Tomarite type fertiliser.

Cheers

Mth

To add, no veggies being grown, pure lazyitis cum some long standing MH issues, but fingers crossed I might make, I intend to make a fresh start next spring.

And I have been pondering growing herbs/spices even? In that front porch, like thinking of fabricating weldmesh( & hot dip galv) shelving/racking  up both sides, to grow stuff in pots.

Better at imagining than actually doing.

Currently too busy welding at a rotten, rotten G Wagen to focus on owt else.

For now.

Edited September 26 by difflock

[sime42]

 

 

 

 

You need to get some of these @peds

Chilean Myrtle Berry and Siberian Kiwi.