Cost of Living
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Aug 2022
5:27pm, 21 Aug 2022
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Ness
Yep! Our next door neighbours toyed with chicken keeping when they first moved in. Mr Ness was mildly irritated because the covenant on the houses strictly prohibits this. I was worried because they kept escaping which I thought left them vulnerable to the local fox population. In the end, I think they got some kind of fowl pox so they got rid of them.
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Aug 2022
6:27pm, 21 Aug 2022
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richmac
You could grow more than you think in there Fields. Depending on the orientation a line of grow bags on that left side could work, including a plastic grow house for tomato's Year 1 of our allotment has gone ok I think. Success has been spuds, courgettes, squash, kale, spinach leeks, onions, parsnips lettuces, radish and Chard. The peas were ok, cabbages and broccoli not a roaring success. Next year try more of what worked and less of what didn't. Plus a few new things. |
Aug 2022
6:28pm, 21 Aug 2022
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Welshpoppy
We also toyed with idea of hens but decided it would be down to me to look after them and found a good supplier locally of fresh hens and duck eggs and rather give our money to her.No farmers markets as yet but will keep my eye open.
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Aug 2022
6:29pm, 21 Aug 2022
34,975 posts
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EvilPixie
I love blueberries but I thought they needed acid soil so tubs?
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Aug 2022
6:30pm, 21 Aug 2022
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Muttley
I would buy from the farm shop just up the road and I acknowledge that it's good produce. But the place is owned and run by the family of the local Tory MP ...
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Aug 2022
6:32pm, 21 Aug 2022
92,113 posts
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Hanneke
Keeping hens is by no means cheap, so if you have a good supply nearby, buy them! I keep enough hens to sell the surplus eggs to friends, which keeps them in organic layers pellets. Other than that, mine invariably die of old age and in the past mr Fox... I have since built a fox proof run which cost me so much, I have to keep chickens till the day they die 😎😂 Just as well I love them 
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Aug 2022
6:35pm, 21 Aug 2022
92,114 posts
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Hanneke
EvilPixie my soil is neutral. I planted them, then mulched with ericaceous compost, many years ago, they have been happy ever since. Clients have faffed with raised beds full of ericaceous and/or tubs, none of which gave good results until they followed my advice and just planted them. So unless your soil is limey, go for it!
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Aug 2022
6:36pm, 21 Aug 2022
92,115 posts
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Hanneke
P.S. I have just under half an acre. I appreciate it is a big "garden" but it is actually a very small "smallholding". I could feed about 2 families off it I'd say...
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Aug 2022
6:55pm, 21 Aug 2022
34,977 posts
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EvilPixie
Thanks
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Aug 2022
7:05pm, 21 Aug 2022
26,190 posts
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Rosehip
Would love hens here, they are just so lovely to watch but couldn’t trust the boys to look after them when I wasn’t here and there are too many sodding foxes (and ***** who feed them) Get my eggs from farmer 400yds away anyway - much cheaper and easier
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