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We have wild mint that grows along our creek, I mow it, weed eat it and it still comes back, the chickens don't bother it other than looking for bugs in it. It always smells great when I cut it.

I planted a guava tree next to were I buried my labrador retriever who died in April of this year, this might be different than what your referring to, she was buried in my backyard and was a family member for 15 years.

When my wife weeds the garden the chickens all gather aroung outside the fence, they love those young weed that are sprouting, plus their egg production seem to go up.

We cut branches from our trees that we prune for the teepee, theydon't seem to have any difficulty finding the poles and the strings, they also attach themselves to our garden fence which is chicken wire.

We purchase ours in 5 gallon containers, I thought about pollination so I planted three, Santa Rosa, Mariposa and a beauty, they were all probally two years old, 4 feet or taller and some have fruit already.

I never see slugs or snails we have chickens so they must do a job on them? I have a similiar problem and when I examined them I saw a praying mantis I don't know if they eat leaves or vegetation but I imagine someone can tell us, I left it alone since I know they eat the bad guys.

Our figs aren't quite ready to pick yet, should be soon, we eat them fresh off the tree, any that drop our chickens get.

Our chickens have dug a large hole where we have one of our roses planted, they will dust bathe in it. I have observed as many as 3 chickens at one time together. I quess because it is shaded and next to our creek it is very comfortable for them. When you have chickens it is just one of those...

Our bing cherry tree didn't produce that many cherries this year, so I bought a dwaft self-pollinating bing and a tartain cherry for pollination. You probally have a neighbor who has a cherry tree or it is self-polinating, enjoy!

we were 97 yesterday and will hit or top 100 today everything is looking great.

It is always nice to have a friend care for the animals, the only drawback I ever had was this year when we traveled to China one of my dogs passed away, my friend buried her in the backyard. Have a nice trip and enjoy!

I take the wood shavings mixed with sand and chicken poop and add it to my garden in the off planting season. I spread it around fruit trees as long as they are not flowering or have fruit on them. My chickens will end up spreading it around for me I will water heavy at first to break it down. I...

A square foot is not a lot of space, maybe 2 plants? how many square feet are you planning on planting? I plant mine in rows with a space on each side for watering, I don't plant them to close together even though I have seen it planted this way. I would say they should be planted 10" apart but...

The recipes sound great I love it in pies, many years ago I tried to grow it and the geese I had at the time got into the garden and gobble them up.

Cucumbers are one of my favorites we planted around 25 vines, eating them fresh or adding some vinegar is great.

It mentioned they need lots of water, hot weather and is self pollinating.

We ended up planting a white guava dwaft, they said it gets around 8-10' tall and wide, we planted it near a fence to protect it against the wind. TX

I am in Fair Oaks not far from Sacramento, welcome aboard.

I just cleaned our chicken coop out and spred the mixure of poop and wood shavings around my fruit trees and roses. As long asthe fruit trees are not blooming it is OK.

Sounds great I have a perfect spot picked out for one. Thanks! Hopefully that is all I need is one?