We planted a winter salad garden from seed about two months ago. We’ve been eating fresh homegrown greens for weeks now. There was even enough salad in this little patch to bring enough for everyone at Thanksgiving (11 people).
The chickens LOVE fresh, young greens. We put up a protective cover to keep them out (the green netting/PVC pipe thing standing upright in the image). You can see my Significant Other–or, his nice backside–picking the salad while everyone hovers:
The chickens spend a good minute or two every morning around the salad garden, staring at the plants through the netting. We have to shoo them away while we harvest enough salad for two people (just a minute or two), as they will use that window to try to snatch a plant right from our hands:
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