It’s got to the time of the year when the garden is low on productivity and the chickens can free range and clear up the parasites that have dug themselves into the top soil.
They’re obviously enjoying themselves
And its time to empty the compost heaps onto the beds so I was very pleased to see this in the first one I turned.
The weekend was quite nice weather wise, until of course the day we’d organized a BBQ which was cold and full of light post April showers. Infact I think we should rename them to may showers because there weren’t many at all in April anymore. certainly weren’t many last year or the year before…
Anyway, we did very little down the allotment and escaped with brutely cold parts of our bodies and had the BBQ in the ground floor flats garden. It was very nice, but quite expensive meatwise because I can’t really bring myself to buy anything other than free range when I’ve got the choice. So at least we’re still supporting chicken out…
I'm Tim, a 31yr old ex-Allotmenteer. My wife and I used to have a small 5 rod plot in South Essex where we grew all manner of veg. I'm also involved in brewing the odd keg of beer.
When getting down the allotment got too hard and our circumstances changed we bought a house with a 65ftx30ft garden, which we're converting into a mini orchard and veg beds.
We get up to some weird and wonderful projects - we've built a small boat, a pig roaster (powered by a windscreen wiper), a chicken run, raised beds and try our hands at all sorts of stuff getting us closer to being 'self sufficientish'.
The hope is to introduce chickens soon and hopefully let them free range during the day.
If you want to contact me, you can do so here