Sunday, August 29, 2010

All Chooks waste now growing vegetables

Hi and welcome to our fresh-food-from-garden, as we now are preparing for spring after the very cold winter we had this year, all the young pullets have now been put out into the orchard, and all the garden beds are being prepared, for the new seasons gardens, and all the Compost and Chook waste has been mixed and rotted down into great soil improver, and we are looking forward to seeing new growth.

Also with our fresh-food-from-garden, we are changing all the beds to a cross rotation this year, as I saw it done in new Zealand, this year when visited, and was told it makes good growing that way so now we will try it out ourselves, as we are preparing for Carrots, we already have put in some potato onions, and they are doing well.

And also starting to prepare ground for Broad Beans, and parsley bed has been prepared, also now getting ground ready for some Green Feast Peas to go in; also some Potatoes,
to go in as so as ready for Christmas; and some Snow Peas are in, and the whole garden is starting to look cared for again, next post I will show some Pictures of our Garden, as so as you can see all my hard work, ok so until then keep weel and eat plenty of fresh Chemical vegetable free food, and live longer.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

New Young Pullets from the Chickens

Welcome to the Chicken Shed, Remember all those chickens we shifted into a new shed, well out of the 19, we got 12 young First year Pullets, and now they have all been separated, and roosters in the Finishing shed.
And now all the young Pullets are getting ready to be shifted to the free range Paddocks, where we have a portable Chook house, that we can move all over the paddocks, with a slide out tray underneath to gather all the Chook Poo, for Composting, and spreading over veggie garden.

Also we keep a few sheep to get all the Manure and also we keep a few New Zealand Table meat Rabbits, and we waste not a drop of their waste, its all Composted for the Gardens, also we put a Bag of each variety of animals Manure into a drum of fresh water and let it germinate, for about two weeks then we take a bucket of the tea out and mix it 20 liters to two liters and spray it on all the flowers and vegetables and see them grow.
Then after the drum is empty we use the waste back into the compost heap until if helps all the other break down, then its put onto newly prepared Bed and let stay on top for a week then Beds are dug over and ready for planting, all the left overs from each bed like Broad Bean stalks are Mulched in the mulcher, until cut all up fine then put among either sheep or rabbit or Chook waste,until broken down and composted, ready for next lot of Garden beds. Ok so till next post, keep Weeding. god bless you in every thing you do, Become a Sower, and reap a harvest. bye for now.