eating creature out of the garden during summertime is a great fashion to save a little money on provender , as well as provide the wellness benefit of natural homegrownfruits and veggies . For our little farm hands , though , it can also mean inadvertently making the animate being sick . teach a4 - year - oldthat not all green thing can be prey to rabbits is not an well-heeled task . After all , they were just helping Momma , right ?
To teach my “ helpers ” what food can and can not be fed to the brute , I explored creating a “ hare bed ” in the garden . I considered this feasible selection at first , but eventually ended up prohibit the idea because I simply do n’t have the garden space to dedicate just to rabbits / chickens / stooge . While I do have a salad bed and most of those veggies are perfectly safe for the animals , I could just imagine little Jack - Jack cutting it all down one day because he thought the animals were hungry ! ( in reality , he would probably just unfold the garden logic gate and shoo all the animals in for an all you’re able to eat snack bar ! )
As a via media of sort , Jack - Jack and I are currently pot animal - well-disposed foods to eventually be transplanted around thechicken grounds . ( We have to start everything in potful because my feather friends have a slap-up oculus for spotting seed hundreds of feet away ! ) A number of poulet wire over the grass is render our plant a combat hazard while my married man works on a child - accessible but not crybaby - accessible garden piece .
The benefit of having this type of solidification up actually in the coop area are dim-witted :
But even after starting what we ’re dub the “ henhouse pantry , ” the fact still stay that I will have fruits and vegetable in the main garden that we will be feeding the animals , and those food necessitate to be easily identifiable as edible or nonedible livestock foods . While cut pallet Ellen Price Wood for my garden marker , I realized I could easily stomp , paint or stencil a footling animal head behind the plant life name .
To keep affair simple , if there is an brute head next to the plant name , that fauna can rust it . If not , they ca n’t ! ( I thought about petite rabbit head border by a big red rope with a line through it for rabbit no - no ’s , but why complicate it that much ? ) I on purpose did not put any brute heads on the herb garden signs because , well , that ’d be like giving a 4 - year - old access to the medicine console ! It ’s just good if they view all the herb as unacceptable animal food — at least for now !
During my stint of creativity , I also paint a foretoken for my garden gate . No words , just several animal header with big ol’ “ NO ” symbols around each one ! I actualise the animals ca n’t read , but neither does my 4 - year - old . But peradventure , just maybe , this heavy , rank , tacky house will remind him to exit the garden gate . I ’d tell you where my bet lies , but I do n’t want to witch myself !
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