What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We are here again with Lisa Steele of Fresh Eggs Daily.com and she also

has an amazing book which is right in front of me right now called

gardening with chickens. So what we've talked about over the last couple of days

are getting started with chickens in the first place and then what you should do to get

your chickens in the garden throughout the year. But now we're going to

change tax a little bit and talk about some natural weed control and soil

amendment ideas from the book, Lisa. So I would love, I guess we should start with weeds because we

kind of talked about pests on yesterday's episode we did and pests and

weeds definitely go hand-to-hand things you don't want in the garden. So it's really important when the chickens

are having access to your garden and your lawn for that matter, not to use chemicals. You know,

it's just bad for them. They're eating the grass, they're eating

bugs, it's not good to use chemicals anyway, you know, so if you're using any kind of

miracle grow or, I don't even know the names of these products but you know things to make your

grass really green and all that you should stop because the chickens will

take care of a lot of that for you so there's no need for it anymore but also it is

really bad for them and it's bad for your pets and your

kids and all that so stay away from the chemicals but you do need to have a way to

control weeds. The chickens will eat a lot of them they They don't eat all weeds, but they are pretty good at weed control. They'll eat dandelions and chickweed and you know some of your more common lawn weeds.

Hand pulling is obviously another option. I will pull

dandelion greens and throw them into the chicken run for the chickens when they're

not out free-ranging. They love that. Also, using mulch.

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