sowing seeds now for chooks over winter

[janeyo]

Our 3 have no grass left, and I'm running out of chard to give them. OH hated it so it became chicken greens instead.

If I sow a few trays of greens for them will they germinate in the greenhouse to feed the chooks something over winter? Or shold I just keep going up the market each week and asking for the free 'tops' that no-one wants!

janeyo

[lynda66]

think i'd go down the market, but plant some winter greens anyway, cos once they've grown you'll have plenty, i've left my broccoli caulis and cabbages (that i only planted for OH) in the ground for the chooks ..... but once they're gone i'll be down the market

[Flummery]

You could always snip handfuls of the Corporation's grass for them!

[Two_Sheds]

When I didn't have a lawn, I used to sow trays full of bird seed (millet, oat, wheat, sunflower etc) in the plastic greenhouse, and feed those seedlings to the guinea pigs. It worked really well, grows fast and is tasty, nutritious and (virtually) free.

[janeyo]

Think I will have a rummage through the seed box. There must be loads of stuff in there OH hated and won't get used!

janeyo

[MaureenHall]

Don't think you'll get much of a feed for them sowing at this time of year, sorry Think it's got to be the market

[Hashette]

Apparently ours have gone self-sufficient - where they've kicked over the dishes of mixed corn, there are now little green shoots everywhere. That should keep them busy for the next couple of days!

Meanwhile I've got a friendly greengrocer who saves his cauli leaves for me, and Lidl's are great for cheap greens - 35p for a cabbage to hang up in the run can't be bad when it lasts a couple of days. I've sewed a load of winter lettuce and cress in the greenhouse for them, and there are some cabbages being forced on on the spare bedroom windowsill.

Hubby remembers the days when I used to grow veg for us

[Snadger]

When I didn't have a lawn, I used to sow trays full of bird seed (millet, oat, wheat, sunflower etc) in the plastic greenhouse, and feed those seedlings to the guinea pigs. It worked really well, grows fast and is tasty, nutritious and (virtually) free.

Apparently Trill used to have marijuana seeds in it! Did you ever get a visit from the Old Bill?!

[frias]

Funny you should say that Snadger. Yesterday I was telling my daughter that my grandmother used to throw the contents from the bottom of the budgies cage on the garden and used to grow some very unusual plants! I remember huge poppies too.

[kirsty b]

When I used hemcore in the shed, when it was mucky I'd pull it out and spread it around my fruit bushes.
I was pulling weeds that had grown up through said bushes when I came across some suspiscious looking five-leaved plants!! Must have been some hemp seed in there, and it grew with no bother. Just let the chooks eat it, along with the other stuff I pulled up

[lynda66]

Apparently Trill used to have marijuana seeds in it! Did you ever get a visit from the Old Bill?!

unfortunately ....... (of course never having grown any seeds from trill)
the hemp seed in trill isn't actually any good whatsoever ...... though you can make rope from it ....... you can also buy it as fishing bait ...... that's no good either ..... though i've never ever tried ..... honest

[Flummery]

Apparently Trill used to have marijuana seeds in it! Did you ever get a visit from the Old Bill?!

We've had it from wild bird food. Himself has a license to hold marijuana plants - he's curator of a herbarium! The Men from the Ministry come every year to check he hasn't smoked or ingested the pressed specimens and to renew his license.