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My brain immediately gave me the image of a tomato plant growing out of a chicken's butt.

If you grow a short season hybrid and plant the seeds, chances are good that you'll get something close to the parent. The vast majority of modern tomatoes don't out-cross (the result of a major genetic bottleneck) so most are self pollinated. Grow seeds from fruits you like (particularly the...

My plan is to eventually be able to plant everything in fall and let it come up on its own time in the spring. What can be self-seeding or perennialized will be.

Planted out a bunch of herbs. Watermelons are up. They do a pretty good job of hibernating until it's warm enough for them. One pumpkin survived the cold tolerance test and I marked it for seed. It has two sets of true leaves already. Moschatas are coming up. No corn yet, but since it was only...

Sure it will. Lots of holes dug, sticks broken up, he might even be able to fit a nap in there.

And again, if you told people you were eating Jeffrey Dahmer an explanation would be necessary.

I considered that, and if prices go down I still may in the future.

Or dread-dreaming.

"It’s easier to eat them when they're jerks."

It rained, and rained. I took one step into the main garden and started sinking. Nope. New greenhouse is up but not finished. Winecaps are coming up. Chickees pipping. Replanted moschatas and pumpkins just before the rain started. Chickens winter food storage. I need to replant beans and corn...

They have 3 acres to roam, although they usually stay right up around the coop and the house, where they have trees and a deck for shelter. Right now it's 3 acres of grass, so I need to build a shelter belt that will allow them to roam the whole area safely. This chicken food forest is the start.

My passive solar greenhouse at my old house consistently maintained a temperature between 12 and 15 degrees F above the outside after the outside temps hit freezing. Interestingly, the variance widened when the temperatures got lower. So when it was 20 degrees outside, it was 32 inside. 15...

My thought on that was old carpet or vinyl, if I can find someone remodeling.

I have some heavy plastic, but decided against using it for this greenhouse because of the way the wind is here. 40-50 mph gusts aren't unusual, and this will be in the direct path of most of the wind.

Maybe this group would have some opinions about my second greenhouse. This greenhouse is going to be more of a sprout house--no ground contact, it's built on top of an existing deck. The house is to the East and there's a big tree to the West, so during the winter it will get full sun about...

Started the cattle panel greenhouse.

Yeah. This is their food forest area, so I need to decide on the major plantings.

Ok, this doesn't exactly count as gardening in the traditional sense. This is a picture of my planned chicken forest. This is just bare bones, providing shelter and a few winter snacks. Other things will be added later. The two curved lines are rows of logs, on contour. The house is to the...