Newbie Here! Hello from SC!

[CarolinaGardenerSC]

@Smart Red
Thanks!! Good to be here

 

[baymule]

@baymule Thank you for sharing that with me! That is funny, I say the same thing to my boyfriend. He will say, wow honey you seem like you already know a lot about this. I will just smile because I know where I learned it from What great memories to have and to build on. Jealous that you live in Texas! Always heard that is a beautiful place. What are you planting?

I do love Texas! I have lived on the Gulf coast, (Baytown) and loved fishing in the marshes and swamp. I love the salt spray in my face, but it has been years...... Now we live in northeast Texas, hills and forest, agriculture, mostly ranches. We moved here (Tyler area) a little over a year ago and wonder why we didn't get here sooner.

I have 2 buckets of seed and have a 100'x70' fenced garden. I want to plant EVERYTHING!

Do you have chickens? You can build a simple, easy coop from cow panels. I used to collect bagged leaves in the fall and pile them in the coop and run three feet deep. The chickens would have a great time scratching in all their new treasures, what they didn't eat, they pooped on and scratched it to bits. In a few months I had crumbly black garden gold. If you want chickens, we are great enablers. Just tell your boyfriend, I only want a few........and we all know where that ends up!

 

[CarolinaGardenerSC]

@baymule awesome! ah that sounds so nice. I'm afraid our little plot of land is not big enough for all of that, but sounds like you got a good thing going!
We do have chickens! though much fewer than we started with We started with 22 couple week old chicks, but now only have 6Due to predators we finally caught. We are thinking of introducing new chicks to flock, but haven't decided if we want to take that on yet. He has had chickens before but I haven't, but seeing as they are at his house, and he works 60+ hrs a week, we're trying to take it slow.

How many chickens do you have? What do you do to keep the predators away??

 

[CarolinaGardenerSC]

Thank you @thistlebloom ! I am finding this out! Thank you @jackb and @Nyboy ! Glad to be here

 

[baymule]

Build Fort Knox. Use hardware cloth, never chicken wire. At our old house, I had a 7'x8' coop with a 12'x8' run. The run was 3 cow panels. Let me see if I have a pic of that.....

 

[CarolinaGardenerSC]

WOW!

 

[Nyboy]

Hand painted flowers in back ground add a nice touch

 

[baymule]

If you look closely, you can see the wire I laid on the ground all around the coop and run. I secured it with hog rings. I love cow panels and hog rings!! Here's how I built the hoop coop I am using now. It's really easy. If you have an existing coop, you can just build a hoop run onto it and cut an opening for the chickens to go in and out.

http://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/hoop-coop.18291/

 

[CarolinaGardenerSC]

Great thanks!

 

[CarolinaGardenerSC]

A little post on why I love gardening http://www.worthmorethansparrows.co...ored-my-Sanity/xhyob/56f2ec490cf266a2925757d3