Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy.
Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape—from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Home gardens can be great chicken habitats if designed well, and Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies provides a plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.
Gardening with Free-Range Chicken For Dummies offers guidance and step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing a host of different chicken garden plans. Plus, you'll get detailed information on the best plants and landscaping materials for your chicken garden (and the ones to avoid), seasonal considerations, attractive fencing options, predator and pest control, and much more.
An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummies and Building Chicken Coops For Dummies A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a chicken garden Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautiful garden
If you're looking for step-by-step advice on building a chicken garden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies has you covered.
By:
Bonnie Jo Manion,
Robert T. Ludlow (Owner,
BackYardChickens.com)
Imprint: For Dummies
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 185mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781118547540
ISBN 10: 1118547543
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 June 2013
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Gardening and Chickens 7 Chapter 1: Joining Forces: Companion Gardening with Chickens 9 Chapter 2: Preparing Your Garden for Chickens 33 Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Family for Chickens 63 Chapter 4: Creating Your Space for Free-Range Chickens 83 Part II: Designing a Chicken-Friendly Garden 101 Chapter 5: Creating a Safe and Smart Garden Space: Landscape Material Ideas 103 Chapter 6: From Garden to Pasture: Perfect Plantings for All Your Needs 125 Chapter 7: Growing Good Eats for Chickens and People 147 Chapter 8: From Lawns to Poisonous Plants: Other Landscape Considerations 165 Part III: Chicken Care: Tending to Your Flock 181 Chapter 9: Know Thy Flock: Understanding Chicken Behaviors 183 Chapter 10: Caring for Chickens: Predators, Sickness, Injury, and Death 199 Part IV: The Part of Tens 221 Chapter 11: Ten Common Chicken Problems Solved 223 Chapter 12: Ten Benefi cial Tools and Aids to Have 229 Chapter 13: Ten Ways to Get Really Fancy 237 Index 245
Bonnie Jo Manion has been featured in national garden magazines with her gardens, organic practices, chickens, and designs. Follow Bonnie at VintageGardenGal.com. Rob Ludlow is the owner of BackYardChickens.com, a top source on chicken raising, and the coauthor of Raising Chickens For Dummies.
