Well, looks like I'll have to replant everything. Maybe the collards and parsley will survive. Radishes will be okay as they hadn't sprouted when the chickens escaped.
Has anybody tried a straw bale garden? It's so late, I'm thinking of putting my salad greens in bales since I have to plant the tomatoes and other spring stuff around Feb 1. Otherwise, everything will overlap, or I need to plant the salad stuff in a location that just isn't sunny enough for winter growing.
I do still have peppers and eggplants not effected by the rampaging chickens, along with 8 potted dwarf and/or determinate tomatoes. Those are all on the other sides of the house, guarded by the dogs, where the chickens never go, even when they fly the coop.
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