Cheap Chicken feeder 2 Living greens feeder for chickens

I have finely make up a "Living Green Feeder" for the girls pen.. A friend, tar Rosie, put me onto them a few years ago but I have kept putting it off.. This was a very easy build & only took me about an hour to make & install.. I think a basic one could be made from items such as upturned bread crates or wire baskets from an old fridge/freezer..




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Collard Greens Harvest

After

Before

We decided it was time to harvest the collard greens.

As you can see, the 2 plants got quite stripped!

See the bounty below!

And chopped into the pan ..... It was tasty !

 We harvested the leaves a week ago, and cooked them right away. The collards are keeping on growing ! More for later!

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Tower farm update Collards greens are growing and growing!

The tower farm is doing great, The collard greens growth burst is accelerating, it has put 4 mores leaves on this week (yes 4!!!), the green onions are going too, and the parsley actually put on a new leaf for the first time in
almost 5 weeks! Also the pepper has a tiny new leaf growing - it seems to have recovered from the rough handling
of the tower a few weeks back
The collard greens are really inexpressively growing in the last 2 weeks, they put out new leaves, and the leaves are getting quite big! see below - click to change the pics at your own pace



For a bit more than a month, the nitrates have reappeared in the systems water at a quite high concentration, so last week, I decided not to add ammonia to the water and track the levels of nitrates in the water. Interestingly, the nitrates have kept increasing, even if I didnt add more ammonia. Also, some ammonia has actually appeared in the system.
Obviously, it didnt appear from nowhere, so the most logical explanation I can think of is that the compost tea (or maybe I should call it compost wash) is bringing some more complex forms of nitrogen that gets converted into ammonia and than nitrate.
The worm compost wash I made this week end is very simple: 4 cups of worm compost, 4 cups of water.

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