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Importance of wildlife
We’ve been adding more things fir nature especially for the birds 🦅 We are 100% chemical free growers and the importance of nurturing nature is huge Encouraging bird bees and bugs is crucial as we move towards a better more sustainable growing environment 🥰❤️🙏
Importance of wildlife
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we don't even have nettles in our garden - the chickens get all the green things (even tho' we give them chopped kale)
Potatoes
hi all of you, i hope you are having a good time with all your gardens.i have one question, to which nobody seems to have an answer. i started my potatoes with bought seed potatoes, but on the long run i do not want to buy all the time seed potatoes. any idea what i can do, so that i do not have to buy any seed potatoes anymore?
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@Angelika Batsis potatoes are a hungry crop so it may not be the seed potatoes but whether they are getting enough 'food' to produce good growth. manure the area/container before planting - even grass clippings have some nourishment.
Help needed to rehome healthy chickens before being culled.
Can anyone help with this issue??? Mark, do you have any farmer friends who might be able to find homes for these... A FB friend posted and asked for this to be disseminated.... Best if you properly check out the legitimacy but the research I've done has come up with the same post elsewhere. What rules suggest that perfectly fine chickens have to be culled?? URGENT - Please share (copy and paste) Forwarding to anyone who might be interested, Dear All , This is a cry for help on behalf of some seriously brilliant laying Burford Brown hens! Richard Corbett has 6,000 feathered friends (free range) that have to be culled on Sunday July 5thth – purely because these are the rules when supplying Waitrose M&S etc with eggs. I’m on a mission to try and find as many homes as possible for as many hens as possible – even if its only for 1 or 10 hens. We already have five of his brood and they lay 5 eggs a day which is completely fabulous. So, if you have it in your heart to save a few feathered lives then please add your name to the list and return to me. The Collection date – which HAS to be adhered to – is July 5th. They should be collected from Richard Corbett at Dean Farm House Binley Nr St Mary Bourne, Hants. Tel: 07881783206. PLEAASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
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What about the British Hen Welfare Trust - a lot of farmers contact them when they have a stock 'rotation' (i.e. stock reaches 72-78 weeks of age and are 'let go' for younger stock)
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@Karen Taylor most hens start laying reliably around 26 weeks of age, they are at their most productive for the first year (52 weeks) of being in lay - after this period it's common practice for poultry units to cull the birds as they will lay less eggs the second year, the third year less again. I have a Welsummer bantam hatched on 1st June 2022 - she's still laying and she has a home for life.
Peas...
My peas this year haven't done so well.... How about everyone else?
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our weather was too rubbish - might grow a first early for the autumn 🌱
invasion of the lilac trees
we have several lilac tree shoots coming up from under our fence (tree in garden behind) - we've been cutting them back every year for 3 years now, every year there's more of them. don't want to use anything too drastic on these 'invaders' but running out of patience now - any suggestions??
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Lesley Belgium
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@lesley-belgium-2745
Hello, Lesley here, currently based in South Wales. I started growing vegetables in my teens and I've kept chickens on-and-off for about 30 years.

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Joined Feb 5, 2026