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I’m calling this my April 2021 garden tour because I missed filming one. I will be filming a May garden tour video at the end of May so we can see the difference. I won’t let this failure stop me from moving forward with trying to start my own seeds.
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Slugs…cheap beer is good or brown snakes love slugs. Also salt them.
You will need to separate the cannilibistic chicken from the others Becky.
Just process and eat the chicken
Usually chickens will eat their eggs if their calcium difficent and/or protein difficient. They will also do it if they don't have enough room or are stressed. They also like the taste of eggs, so if by accident one is cracked and they taste it they will keep eating it since they develop a taste for it
Asparagus is a really big delicacy in Germany, they even have Asparagus festivals. You're only supposed to eat it in season, and the white Asparagus is the best. One family I lived with there preserved it in a pickle, so they could have it year round. Pickling is a massive thing there, so there's some great recipes for pickled foods. One in particular I could see you liking is beef roulade. It's a sort of stew, but the beef is wrapped around a filling that's usually sauerkraut and beets with gherkins and is often served with potato dumplings
How has your celery done? I really want to grow some as my guinea pigs love it, but I've seen that it can be quite hard and needs a sandy soil. Do you have any tips? Tips and tricks for growing would be a good video! The parsley and celery plants are great for keeping afids and bugs away too.
Have you tried copper tape around the plants to prevent slugs? That's a popular trick in the UK for in beds, and drawing a thick chalk circle around pots apprently works. We sometimes use table salt around pots, but I've never put the salt on the soil as I'm not sure if that would damage it
Cut them limb off asap
Chickens are absolutely naturally meant to eat their eggs! They need the nutrients.
I think chickens start eating thier eggs if the shells you feed back to them arent crushed really small. Try blending or crushing small your eggshells before feeding them back to the chickens
Apart from the great suggestions to stop the chickens eating eggs in the future,it's also important to note that sometimes they do this because they are lacking in certain vitamins & minerals especially through the colder months & when they are at their peak laying season their calcium & omega levels can get quite low.its important to provide them with shell grit for added calcium& lots of dark leafy greens eg spinach &… some information I run into years ago is that each chicken needs around 10-12 sunflower seeds or something similar that will provide them with omega 3 vitamins & calcium that they lose when laying. I found that adding these to their diet helped a lot .even a mixed grain feed that has suitable nuts & seeds including the sunflower seeds in the mix .
I love how people are so helpful to you. You too are helping me learn more! Thx!
The only reason why a chicken would eat its own egg is because it needs more calcium
A bit late, but I did scroll down to see if anyone mentioned the plum, but gave up after a while! It is fine to prune plum trees in the summer. I feel your pain regarding slugs and snails! We also had a very late frost and so much rain here. Thank you for the tour.
I don't know how I missed this video. I feel you big time on having such a failure and thinking about giving up. This past summer with the massive heat wave had me very low and depressed about the garden. Both my blueberry and my huckleberry bushs died and it stunted some other things. I also inadvertantly killed my corn and kale and was just like "I quit!". But I decided to take the fall off (with the exception of planting a fall snap pea crop) and start again fresh in the spring. I know where I went wrong and am coming up with ways to protect my most prized crops from 115 degree heat which we'll probably get again next year. It's hard living in 8b in Western WA because our weather can change on a dime and kill everything. We got a late frost this last year.
They lose so much calcium giving you eggs, letting them have some replenishes their vitamins.
The beer in a jar is a really great idea to get rid of slugs.
Last year one of my potatoes was left in the ground by accident. It came up the following spring. So it works.
Here's what 'Goggle' says about REPLANTING potatoes…
You can replant potatoes, but you should not do so right after harvest. The tubers may sprout and grow into new plants in the spring, but they could rot in wet soil during fall or winter. A better idea is to harvest the tubers, brush off the dirt, and store them in a cool place. Volunteer potatoes can transmit 'diseases'.
You live in Jersey right? If so, your Winters may be too harsh for the potatoes which will ROT with too much water or really low freezing temperatures.
Mix up salt with dove dish soap in a container and put spray your beds with it, It will help cut down the slugs and other bugs in your garden. I used that mixture every year and never had a probem with bugs or slugs in my garden and my gardens were double your size.
Becky a chicken will eat a weak egg, meaning the egg was layed but the chicken knows that the shell is weak and thin, and they want to get rid of the evidence of a failed egg so they will eat it or allow another chicken to eat it and they will try again to lay another egg that is much stronger in both shell and stability.
Becky Invest in Greenhouse Film Yard Plastic and cover your beds if you plan to plant in Feb or March. Never plant after 1pm because you're not allowing the sun to warm the soil completely after you plant. If you plant in the morning and cover with the Greenhouse Film Yard Plastic the heat from the sun will keep the earth warm even through the night. Don't beat yourself up or get emotional if you lose a few plants due to frost, we've all been there and done the same thing. You've just learned what not to do in the future. That's a learning curve we've all had to learn the hard way. Chin up.
Carrots missing – check to see if you have rabbits in the area. They used to love to steal my carrots during the night. the little buggers.
Take a sample of the fungus on your pear tree to your local nursery and ask to speak to the horticulturalist and ask them for their advice on how to kill the plights that you have on the tree. They will help you for free.
Heya… Ducks eat slugs and snails and give you huge eggs…. Side note Keep your washed Egg shells and crush… if you layer it in the garden, they WONT go in because it cuts their bottoms… Hugs from Esquimalt
Chickens eat their eggs in nature when they’re unfertilized. They could be malnourished or deficient in something.
How do you get started with a garden like this? Mine would be on a smaller scale, but I have two planter boxes and feeln overwhelmed by what to do…
When i was a little girl my grandpa used to put copper nails in his bed that was prone to snails I don't know the science but it worked an elderly man who was his neighbour told him to do it because his one bed was always eaten away by slugs and snails. Later he found thin copper about 4 inch wide in a roll and put it around the perimeter of the bed.