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Hi, I'm hopefully going to be moving house soon. I've bought a new mesh chicken run to go in the garden there. I'm going to try and make it blend in with the garden as much as possible so put a rockery on the inside and outside so it blends in and hopefully grow a climbing plant or two to run up the side and roof of the run to create a bit of natural cover. The garden is North East facing so the climber will have to be shade tolerant to a degree and be non toxic to the chickens. I'll put a finer mesh along the side it'll grow up so it can't get pecked but no doubt flowers, seeds or leaves will fall into the run, perennial plants would be better, any ideas what would work?
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Im going to try runner beans and climbing french beans.
Might as well get some crops as well as providing shade and a wind break for the ladies.82.6% of people believe any statstic!Comment
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I have thornless blackberries(brambles) growing over my coop.Comment
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One problem with flowers within reach of chickens is that they do like to catch pollinating insects.
When a Chicken eats a Bee it doesn't do the Bee or the Chicken a lot of good.
So possibly something without flowers.(unless it is out of reach)Feed the soil, not the plants.
(helps if you have cluckies)
Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
BobComment
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I'm trying a climbing rose on mineComment
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My girls love bean leaves. Not sure you'll ever get the beans to grow if they within reach!Originally posted by janzbro View PostComment
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Should hopefully be moving next Friday! I'm thinking honeysuckle to be favourite... The side where the plant will climb is going to have a very fine chicken wire mesh over it so hopefully nothing will grow through and the flowers and foliage will again hopefully all grow on the outside, it's a new build site so the challenge will be to get anything to grow well I guessComment
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Good luck. Any idea which variety?Comment
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Delavay Honeysuckle or dropmore scarlet... Or both, quite fancy a mix so we'll see when we move in see how things settle inComment
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