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I wanted to start a picture thread where we can post pictures of our garden and the progress throughout the season.

 

I would love to see what everyone is doing. For now, I have some seedling pictures. These are actually from a few weeks ago, and everything is bigger and I also started cukes, basil, nasties, and some other herbs and flowers. 

 

Tomatoes & peppers

 

 

Chard, kale, spinach, & lettuce

 

 

Thyme, romanesco (fractal broccoli !), and onions

 

 

...& my baby chicks, Enya, Ke$ha, and Tesla.

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Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on June 20, 2011 at 2:37am

Or considering this is the chainlink, how about a garden bike tour?  We could pick a date and time and then have people volunteer their places as stops on a tour.  If we have places covering too large an area we might need to break it up into a series of tours, ie southside, west side, north side but we ought to be able to work t out easily enough,

 

The potluck idea sounds fun too,   Could combine it with the tour or perhaps some folks will want to host parties while others might prefer to just be a stop on a tour.

 

I'd likely offer up our place as a tour stop, though I'd have to clear it with my wife Sara first.  Of concern to us is we regularly let our chickens free range on our property and we have read it is possible to transmit poultry diseases by walking through their living spaces.  Not sure what the appropriate hygiene practice is, but it might require something like putting out a shallow pan of bleach water and asking everyone to walk through it on entrance/exit.

Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 20, 2011 at 9:41am

Todd,


If you are concerned about your chickens wellbeing, consider asking these questions on http://groups.google.com/group/chicago-chicken-enthusiasts?pli=1


It is a very active and knowledgeable group of local chicken owners.

 

FWIW, we've been chicken owners for 3 years now and have never worried about it. We were even a stop on Chicken Coop tour and got plenty of other chicken owners to visit.

 

 

Todd Allen said:

Or considering this is the chainlink, how about a garden bike tour?  We could pick a date and time and then have people volunteer their places as stops on a tour.  If we have places covering too large an area we might need to break it up into a series of tours, ie southside, west side, north side but we ought to be able to work t out easily enough,

 

The potluck idea sounds fun too,   Could combine it with the tour or perhaps some folks will want to host parties while others might prefer to just be a stop on a tour.

 

I'd likely offer up our place as a tour stop, though I'd have to clear it with my wife Sara first.  Of concern to us is we regularly let our chickens free range on our property and we have read it is possible to transmit poultry diseases by walking through their living spaces.  Not sure what the appropriate hygiene practice is, but it might require something like putting out a shallow pan of bleach water and asking everyone to walk through it on entrance/exit.

Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 20, 2011 at 9:49am

If Ginger turns out to be a rooster, a live butcher (I know there is one on Lawrence near the river) will turn Ginger into a nice fryer for around 2 bucks.

 

Todd Allen said:
Same chickens in both shots, from left to right: Ginger, Swan, Henrietta and Freckles.  First was taken last week of February at age of 1 week and second was taken a week ago.  They should reach maturity in July.

We acquired them as day old female chicks.  But we are starting to suspect Ginger is not quite as female as the others.
Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 20, 2011 at 9:00pm
Since there appear to be numerous hosta lovers in this thread, two shots from our hostas. The first where they frame the roses, the second one a close up from the ones on the leftAlso, a picture of the pole beans doing their thing. They are about 2.5 feet high already
Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 20, 2011 at 9:05pm

A little video that shows what chickens do when left to their own devices. Which is really not much at all...

 

Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on June 20, 2011 at 11:26pm

Duppie, thanks for the info.  I just applied to the Google group.


I'm sure the transmission of serious disease is fairly rare but I don't want in my inexperience to do anything inappropriate and increase risks for ourselves or anyone else.  We got a dog from a shelter just over a week ago.  Her initial exam with our vet included a positive test for Giardia.  We are treating her for it and she'll be retested for it in 4 weeks to know if the treatment was effective.  And then we'll retest again in 6 months to find out if she has recontracted it.  That is possible because lots of other potential hosts could have been exposed to it.

 

We have a dog, chickens, turtle and garter snake free ranging the yard together along with visits from squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, opossums, cats, rats, pigeons, etc.  I'm sure other folks who might participate in the tour have risk factors both known and unknown as well.

 

Other than the dog none of the other animals is likely to ever receive professional medical care.  We don't use herbicides, pesticides or fungicides in our garden and the potential risks go beyond the animals and includes the plants as well.

 

 

 

Duppie said:

Todd,


If you are concerned about your chickens wellbeing, consider asking these questions on http://groups.google.com/group/chicago-chicken-enthusiasts?pli=1


It is a very active and knowledgeable group of local chicken owners.

 

FWIW, we've been chicken owners for 3 years now and have never worried about it. We were even a stop on Chicken Coop tour and got plenty of other chicken owners to visit.

Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on June 20, 2011 at 11:45pm

Ginger most definitely turned out to be a rooster.  We were contemplating just such a solution and had renamed him Ginger Baker, but the store we got our chicks from, Belmont Feed & Seed, offered to exchange two 5 week old pullets, another easter egger and a golden laced wyandotte for our 4 month old rooster.



Duppie said:

If Ginger turns out to be a rooster, a live butcher (I know there is one on Lawrence near the river) will turn Ginger into a nice fryer for around 2 bucks.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on June 21, 2011 at 5:41am
Guacamole?

Duppie said:
Since there appear to be numerous hosta lovers in this thread, two shots from our hostas. The first where they frame the roses, the second one a close up from the ones on the left
Permalink Reply by igz on June 21, 2011 at 10:42am
thats a decent deal

Todd Allen said:

Ginger most definitely turned out to be a rooster.  We were contemplating just such a solution and had renamed him Ginger Baker, but the store we got our chicks from, Belmont Feed & Seed, offered to exchange two 5 week old pullets, another easter egger and a golden laced wyandotte for our 4 month old rooster.



Duppie said:

If Ginger turns out to be a rooster, a live butcher (I know there is one on Lawrence near the river) will turn Ginger into a nice fryer for around 2 bucks.

Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 21, 2011 at 11:44am
I have no idea whatsoever what you are trying to say here...

H3N3 said:
Guacamole?

Duppie said:
Since there appear to be numerous hosta lovers in this thread, two shots from our hostas. The first where they frame the roses, the second one a close up from the ones on the left
Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on June 21, 2011 at 12:00pm
Permalink Reply by Duppie on June 21, 2011 at 12:43pm

Ah!...


It might be. Hostas are not my specialty, but it certainly looks a lot like it.


H3N3 said:

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