Hi Stephen, Your plot sounds lovely - I'm getting some goosberry bushes this year! Around a quarter of my plot is dappled to fully shaded and I find Borage grows very well (and is great for pimms!), spinach does well there and is more tolerant of a day without water. You could also try some beautifu...

Mine is my cat's name - plus all the Marmalade and jam I make!

I think so smurfy! I will post pictures of the journey from flatpack to beautiful hen home...

Why not grow plants up the Wheelie bin? Many a disaster has been hidden under a bush...

Both ends Alan! It was a terrible groaning sound - he is an engineer and all-round DIY pro so I suppose it was fair...Large tube of glue does sound tempting though

I shall bravely tackle the assembly of my girls new home...and hopefully will have all my fingers and toes attached at the end! I mentioned to my Dad that I could glue it together if all else fails - you could hear the complaints miles away!

Wow - very impressive...also looks slightly as though a Tornado might whoosh along sometime!

Mine is a bit more 'modest' - and, rather worryingly, is still in it's flatpacked form...

Recipe to follow Old Herbaceous! Several of my work colleagues (those who aren't totally bemused by the idea of keeping chickens) have spent ages thinking up recipes!

Thanks Alan and Pongeroon...the veg patch is at the top of the garden (up 10 deep steps) and the chickens, will, for the most part be on the bottom level - although I can see them escaping and flapping up there for a look arond I was thinking of fencing them with something moveable so they can have ...

Thanks Alan The garden is just over 1/4 acre with mixed wildflowers, borders (probably now dust-bath sites!) and a large veg patch. The buttercups are just over a foot tall - with some longer grasses, but they are more spread out. I think I will take a pre-trample and post-trample picture! Many thanks

Hi Oxalis, My email might be a bit late....but if you have had no luck so far, you could try contacting the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Chichester, West Sussex. They plough and harvest with their own heavy horses - usually a team of Percherons. I believe they make their own harness and imp...

Not the start of a new recipe.... I'm getting three lovely Lohmann Brown POLs in a few weeks time. I turned my garden into a wildflower meadow last year so they will be pecking around in that. Will they be able to navigate through the buttercups and other tall wildflowers? Or would it be best to mow...