Gardens

We have been working on Gardens this summer. We got to it too late for much of a summer garden but just in time for a nice fall garden.


The chickens are part of the garden system. They stay for a time (not sure how long yet) over one of the garden beds. Their poop is supposed to help the soil. Then we will move them over another bed. Throughout the year the chickens will always be covering one bed, one bed will always be resting (the one the chickens just left), and five beds will be available for planting.
The frames for the gardens are smaller than the chicken tractor so when we move the chickens we will take the garden frame up and move the heavy chicken frame over. The chicken tractor and frame are separate so the chickens can be moved onto the lawn to wait while all the heavy moving takes place. We use a hand truck to move the coop.