Crooked Creek Farm

Cabbage, Cantelope and Chickens...

Tonight we found cabbage worms on the cabbage and broccoli. sigh.... So I mixed up 1 part salt to 2 parts flour and we sprinkled that on the plants. The worms eat this, bloat up and die. I've read that you can also use self rising flour, but I don't use that, so I mixed up the other. Hopefully this works. The cabbages were really looking good! We don't have any flowerettes on the broccoli yet, but the plants are looking really good. So hopefully this will help keep the worms from destroying all our plants.

Now, for the cantelope and chickens....

We have a few (5 or 6 ) chickens out of 36 that keep getting out of the pen. When we walked over to check on the chicken garden last night, we caught a couple of chickens in there next to the cantelopes. The chicken garden is next to the chicken pen. That's why it's call the chicken garden. lol Anyway. D said "maybe that's why we don't have any insects in this garden, the chickens are eating them." To which I replied "As long as they don't eat the cantelopes" Well, guess what? When we got close enough to see, there was a chicken eating a cantelope! I'd say this cantelope was bigger than a ping pong ball, and the chicken ate it! grrrrrr! We found the remains of another partially eaten cantelope also! grrrrr!  Lucky for the rotten teenage hens that they will be giving us eggs soon, or they would hve ended up in the pot! Guess we're going to have to cover the pen with something to keep them in. D clipped all 30 of the teenagers wings (one wing on each chicken) But we consistently have 5 or 6 out everyday.

They better leave our garden alone, or eggs or no eggs, they just might end being our dinner!

Chicken escapees

08:44 AM, Monday, August 21, 2006 .. Posted by cp

Try clipping both wings ... one a little bit shorter than the other. I have some that escape, too! I hate chickens in the garden ... they DO eat bugs, but they eat everything else, too.

Thanks for the anniversary greetings .. it's hard to believe it's been 40 years!!

Connie

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12:59 PM, Friday, September 15, 2006 .. Posted by mc2rwe

I'm sorry about your garden but I am laughing at the way you described it. I have a cover over mine not so much to keep mine in but to keep other critters out. good luck!!

Kathy

Hello fellow Kentuckian!

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