My girls are pretty hard on anything green, and now my backyard looks like the moon. We had to fence off the bamboo plants, and they have eaten everything else.. So I have to start over! I am hoping to get this book for Valentines Day: Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard: By Jessi Bloom, Photographs by Kate Baldwin
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Here are some "chicken proof plants" from inside the book!
Rose of Sharon * Most shrubs and bushes * Blackcurrants * Rosemary * Lavender * Hardy Geraniums * Hardy Fuschias * Foxgloves * Primroses * Pelargoniums * Oriental Grasses * Clematis * Roses * Honeysuckle * Perennial Sweetpeas * Wormwood * Petunias *Andromeda (Pieris species) *Azalea * Barberry * California lilac * Cotton lavender * Euonymus *Evergreen ferns (Polystichum species) *Fatsia * Forsythia (Forsythia × intermedia) * Heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) Will see about that * Hebes * Lilac (Syringa species) * Mahonia (Mahonia species) * Mexican orange (Choisya ternata) * Osmanthus (Osmanthus species) * Pittosporum * Salal (Gaultheria shallon) * Spiraea * Spurge (Euphorbia species) * Viburnum * Weigela *Bee balm, bergamot (Monardaspecies) * Black-eyed Susan (Rudbekiaspecies) * Bluebeard (Caryopteris species) * Calla lily (Zantedeschia species) * Cape fuchsia (Phygelius capensis) * Catmint, catnip (Nepeta species) * Colum bine (Aquilegia species) * Coneflower * Crocosmia * Daylily (Hemerocallis species) * Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) & Grape hyacinth (Muscari species) * Hardy fuchsias (Fuchsia species) * Hardy geranium (Geranium species) * Iris (Iris species) * Japanese anemone (Anemone japonica) * Lady’s mantle (Alchemilla mollis) * Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) * Lily of the Nile (Agapanthus species) * Mission bells (Fritillaria species) * Peony (Paeonia species) * Peppermint (Mentha ×piperita) * Russian sage (Perovskia species) * Sedum (Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’) * Shasta daisy (Chrysanthemum maximum) * * Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Keep Chickens out of anything you plan on eating. You could get really sick from the droppings. Here are some chicken resistant herbs/veggies:
Garlic * Onions * Leeks * Potatoes *Squashes * Legumes, Chives * basil * mint oregano * thyme * Tarragon * Sage * Rhubarb (slightly toxic) * Parsley * Cougettes * Climbing beans once established * Current Bushes (without fruit) * Asparagus (once in leaf) * Spearmint (Mentha spicata)
Ground covers:
Bishop’s hat * Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens) * Christmas rose (Helleborus species)* Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster species) * Deadnettle (Lamium species) * Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) * Geum (Geum species) * Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis) 8 Juniper (Juniperus species) *Lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina) * Leadwort (Plumbago auriculata) * Lilyturf (Liriope species) * Marjoram (Origanum majorana) * Oregano (Origanum vulgare) * Phlox (Phlox species) * Sedge (Carex species) * Sedum (Sedum species) * St Johns wort (Hypericum perforatum) * Sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Click here to buy this book for me...I mean you.