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garden construction (cont'd)
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Posted by stoneunhenged (My Page) on Fri, Sep 14, 07 at 17:45
| As the summer slowly flows into autumn --too slowly in North Florida-- progress has continued on the permaculture garden. The big additions include a run of chicken pens around the windmill to form the 'wall of death' for insects traveling toward the garden. These pens house birds that either lay eggs that grow into meat birds or birds that produce eggs for the table. In total, there are eight of these breeder pens; four on each side of the windmill. I also added bluebird houses and a large bat house to keep down the insect population. And, I've started building raised bed gardens out of some abandoned retaining wall bricks.
The chicken pens and its residents:
The bat house; it stands on a 21' pole and can house about a thousand bats:
And the unfilled raised beds:
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| Very Nice! Did the bats come? Those chickens look happy! Hey, they can say they stayed at a chicken holiday inn last night and really mean it! Where did you ever find so many nice stones for the raised gardens??? Leasa |
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| It takes a while to 'season' a bat house so they feel comfortable roosting. Two or three years in the weather should produce a nice colony. |
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| That looks really great. Love the idea of a bug barricade. |
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