{"id":22190,"date":"2017-08-22T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22190"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:04:42","slug":"replanting-the-chickens-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22190","title":{"rendered":"Replanting the chicken’s strip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes planting just doesn’t work as out as you see it in your head. When we had the path done last summer I felt we needed something alongside the chicken’s dandelion strip to edge the new path.<\/p>\n

I planted mint knowing that it spreads but that it would be contained to this strip. I thought it would stay low and I had read that chickens like to eat it so it seemed the perfect thing to put in here.<\/p>\n

Well nobody told that to my girls! They do not like it at all and refuse to touch it. As they love dandelion leaves which are bitter in taste I am guessing that they don’t like the smell of the mint. I know chickens have a good sense of smell.<\/p>\n

The mint soon smothered the dandelions and it grew very tall which I hadn’t expected. We have had to keep chopping it down as it blocks light to the run. This just wasn’t working. It wasn’t pleasing me or the girls. It had to go.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we went to the garden centre with a voucher I had and bought a few compact, cushion forming plants. We pulled all the mint out revealing the girl’s strip of dandelions once more. I planted the new plants and a few bits that I pinched from around the garden.<\/p>\n

It will take a bit of patience for the strip to fill in but I am feeling much happier about the result. This will leave the girls their dandelions and add different colours and texture rather than a swath of one thing.<\/p>\n

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This used to be the girl’s dandelion strip<\/p><\/div>\n

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It has now turned into a mint strip<\/p><\/div>\n

The mint is only half the height it was before we clipped it.<\/p>\n

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The newly planted strip<\/p><\/div>\n

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The dandelions beside the bricks have now been uncovered<\/p><\/div>\n

It does look a bit bare at the moment but it will soon fill up. I feel happier with it than the mint. The mint was a mistake but sometimes gardening is all about trial and error and patience.<\/p>\n

A week later<\/h2>\n

I wrote this post just as all the problems started with Rusty and it got sidelined. I have since added a few small plants that have self seeded around the garden.<\/p>\n

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Chicken strip a week later<\/p><\/div>\n

It doesn’t look that much different but it is filling in a little. I will continue to add small plants here until it fills up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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