We have decided to get chickens!!! Our allotment has produced nothing this year (or as we say in Yorkshire – bugger all) the weather has been shocking and the slugs and snails are rife. It’s a big allotment in our garden and the soil is good quality in parts and not at all in others so we tend to plant things near the front and leave the back. Last year I decided to fill the back with fruit bushes but the soil quality is so poor that they died (the raspberry canes struggled and produced a leaf at first but then gave up). John and I would not really consider ourselves high up on the ‘Tichmarsh’ scale of gardening and so probably have not dedicated ourselves enough to soil improvement, weeding and hoe’ing.
So were filling it full of Chickens!! Well we think we are. There is huge debate in the household.
Actually I’m going off on a bit of a tangent because I’ve not ‘blogged’ for two years so perhaps it would be pertinent to say that all children have left the home!!! Stacey is living in Elland with Lee. They are engaged and the wedding is June 2014. Stephen is living in Elland with Kaylie but there not engaged and being engaged is a Mute point as far as Stephen is concerned. They do have a dog though – Woody the Springer Spaniel who is 5 months at the moment (Aug 2012) – they also have two cats. But that’s ok because they live in a flat where your not allowed pets!! Mark is home at the moment he is on Army leave for three weeks and has one and a half to go. So Mark currently lives in Tidworth in the south of England
I digress – back to the chickens. After mass debate (you have to be careful how you put that) I have, this morning, had a cunning plan. We can but an inner fence about three foot wide round the allotment, this would be about three foot high, covered in chicken wire and would act as a run for the wee birdies. I think this is a brilliant idea and will update on the progress as and when it becomes more real
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