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Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies
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Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy. Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape from soil-building to managing pests and weeds.
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Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy.
Chickens are great gardening assistants, offering numerous benefits for a home garden and landscape—from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Home gardens can be excellent habitats for chickens if designed properly, and Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies provides a plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps both the chickens and the garden thrive.
Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies offers guidance and step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing various chicken garden plans. Additionally, it provides detailed information on the best plants and landscaping materials for your chicken garden (including those to avoid), seasonal considerations, attractive fencing options, predator and pest control, and much more.
- An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummies and Building Chicken Coops For Dummies
- A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a chicken garden
- Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautiful garden
If you're looking for step-by-step advice on building a chicken garden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies has you covered.
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ISBN: 9781118547540
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 July 2013
Country: United States
Imprint: For Dummies
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 185.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 431g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Bonnie Jo Manion has been featured in national garden magazines with her gardens, organic practices, chickens, and designs. Follow Bonnie at VintageGardenGal.com. Rob Ludlow is the owner of BackYardChickens.com, a top source on chicken raising, and the coauthor of Raising Chickens For Dummies.
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