Chicken wire for vegetable trellis?
Tim in Colorado (5b)
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Comments (2)Leave one end of the fence not attached to anything. Buy some j hooks at the hardware store. Attach them to you last upright and just pull the CW over the j hook to attach and anchor in place. When you want to get in. Pull the CW off the j hook. Easy and simple. That is if your too short to step over. Or you could trim the CW down to say 2 feet on one spot for an entrance/exit....See MoreAny vegetable gardner thinking of Chicken Coop ?
Comments (45)My sister has a great system for her chickens and garden. Her coop is built right next to a "double" garden plot. The plot is divided in half and completely fenced. Each summer, one half is available for the chickens to roam and scratch, while the other is her vegetable garden. Each fall, after harvest is done, she switches sides. She roams the streets with her trailer and collects hundreds of bags of raked leaves, dumps them in with the chickens, and they spend the next year enjoying the bugs and worms the leaves attract. The chicken poop and leaves turn into wonderful compost and nary a weed survives their pecking. She is lucky enough to be in the country, so she can get away with this plan. She has had repeated challenges with predators, and spent more money on reinforcing vents and fences than I'm sure her chickens are worth. However, she's not trying to make it a money saving or making venture. Chickens can be wonderful, but they do require constant vigilance. Martha...See Morechickens in vegetable garden?
Comments (10)We let our hens range the garden freely in spring and fall, letting them out for an hour or so before dark so that they come back to the coop on their own. And try to be outdoors when they do, in case the neighbour's dogs come roaming. We've tried different ways of letting the hens into the growing garden, since they love to roam and they do eat pests (we have way less of an earwig problem since we started doing this). One was a chicken tractor, not super successful because I made it small enough - 6'x3'x3' - for one person to move it easily, but it required frequent moving. I think a tractor double the size would still be moveable and more to the hens' liking. Last year we fenced in ~150-foot sections of the garden with wooden stakes and chicken wire, easy enough for two people to move once a week or so. The chickens tilled the soil, pooped, and ate pests in sections that had nothing we wanted to protect from them - harvested or cover crops. This spring we made a run for them in the grass strip alongside the garden, using stakes and chicken wire. They get the slugs and bugs that move into the garden from the grass, and we toss weeds, spent plants or whatever into the run for them. Since they're fertilizing the run, and it's turning into a kind of composting area, I suppose we'll have to make use of it one of these years. For slugs, you could lay old wide boards on the soil, turn them after a few days and let the chickens eat the slugs that collect on the bottom. Letting chickens free-range safely and without having the garden destroyed is an ongoing challenge....See MoreDoes Wire Trellis Burn Plant?
Comments (4)No the wire will not burn the plants but floral wire is very fine and can cut the stems if it gets really windy and they rub against it. So try to keep the wire from direct contact with the stems. Unfortunately a tomato plant isn't a house plant. So trying to grow a tomato plant indoors is a whole other set of issues. Can it be done? Yes with extra work and attention. They require lots of supplemental light for 12-16 hours a day from special light set ups, likely will not bloom much and if they do they must be hand pollinated to develop fruit. They will not produce the same quality of fruit as when grown in their natural environment outdoors. Dave...See Morefunctionthenlook
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