Organic Gardening

When we grow and harvest crops from our garden soil, we remove some of the fertility that is there. If we do not find ways to repace what we have taken, we are in effect strip mining the soil, robbing it year after year of its native fertility.There is one power tiller which based on long years of its use, I can recommend, your chicken flock. The lazy gardening tiller. Their tillage is only inches deep, so they have no effect on the soil profile. Plus you save on feed cost. The only problem I have is keeping them in the garden area. They tend to go all over the yard, but they are great weed eaters. In our own backyards, however, we can reserve that trend, taking care to replace what we have removed. Chickens fertilize the garden too. The true gardener is the one who finds as much joy in the deepening, dardening, and mellowing of her garden's soil, as in the crops she harvests from it.