I just noticed I stuck an extra p in compost.

And I managed to post it twice. Sorry.

We won't send ya to Disney. :D

ROFL

You said you put an extra P in compost. Well done you ... it's HIGHLY recommended as a compost activator. Indeed ... Pee. Yes, piddle on your pile for better veggies. indeed Ben Falk in The Resilient gardener, talks a lot about the benefits of urinating on his veggie patch. Mind you, it's not the best for leafy greens!! RC Dublin, Ireland.

Ha, not the best for leafy greens. I tried to get my husband to pee on the compost last year, but we live in town and he was afraid the neighbors would call the cops. ;)

lol

Me too. Get him to take a suitable container to the 'small room' to do his thing. (All very discrete and citified) then dilute it at least 10 to 1 (ten parts water to 1 part pee) before putting on your beds. This is especially good if you catch the early morning 'donation' ... darker colour means lots of Nitrogen. Good luck.

Of course, you girls are also allowed 'donate' !! This is an equal opportunities system.

Sadly, since we are both on medications I don't think we are supposed to use our urine.

Robert, it's cool that you'd take the time to visit with us. I'd love to have your climate. Honestly, I probably wouldn't know what to do with a decent climate! There is a famous permaculture plot in Ireland. I bet you know to that which I refer. :) Very inspirational.

Is Chickencoupe a souped-up chicken tractor?

No. In fact, I don't have any chickens. I hate chickens. I like to eat chicken. A lot. I find live chickens completely obnoxious. If I ever were required to raise chickens they wouldn't like me. I know they would eventually form a coupe and take over, because that's how chickens are. They are disgustingly irritating with their clucking and scratching and ceaseless eating. Chickens are mean.

Just thinking about chickens makes me want to bolster my army in defense of any future chicken runs.

Oh wow, I love my hens. Every single one. I also adore the baby chicks. Our hens and chicks aren't mean. Sometimes they follow me around the yard like puppies do. Roosters are mean and I could live without them, but we keep at least one Welsummer rooster to protect the flock and one Mille fleur d'Uccle to protect the banties. Normally the Welsummer rooster isn't real crazy about the Mille fleur rooster, but he tolerates him and doesn't try to kill him. Neither rooster is aggressive towards humans because we've taught them not to be.

Bon, You know how tasty home-grown veggies, fruits and herbs are and how much better they are for you since you can harvest and eat them fresh before the nutrients degrade? Well, home-grown eggs are the same way. That is why it is important to us to always have a flock of poultry. Right now we have 25 or 26 chickens and too many of them are roosters because we let the ones that hatched this fall live. As spring goes on, we'll weed out a lot of the roosters and replace them with some new hens. The feed stores here have fresh shipments of poultry now (I believe they arrived last week) and I have to stop and look at them whenever we're in a feed store. Our sole Crested Polish is a very old chicken now---I think she was born in 2008 and she is the last of dozen polish chicks we bought that year. Their peripheral vision is poor, so you lose them occasionally while they are free-ranging. She presides over the flock as "Grandmother" and even the roosters don't mess with her too much. Before we bought poultry, our rural property had problems with ticks and fleas. The chickens and guineas cleared that up in no time.