The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: sabrina on January 29, 2014, 08:41:16 pm
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Today I finished the last of my home grown veg for my two pigs. they have had turnips, carrots, kale, sprouts, cabbage beetroot also strawberries and apples. Its worked out quite well I think so plan to do it again in the future. Did mean less room for our veg but most of that I grew in the pollytunnel. I buy nets of carrots for the ponies at £3 which the pigs now get too. Fancy growing melon this year for a change and a few other things. Happy piggies.
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They sound very spoilt babies ;D Well done you. Pigs adore lush melons we used to get boxes of really ripe ones off the market at the end of the days trading but sadly a nasty man from the council stopped us by saying we had to have a waste licence! Jobsworth! Now they just go in the skip to landfill >:(
Keep growing most of what we grow goes to the pigs too so you're not the only one.
Mandy :pig:
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We did the same Sabrina.
Have you the space to grow lots of pumkins? It can be hardwork chopping them up but they loved them - the seed core seemed was always the first to be eaten.
I think that I over fed them on apples and sweet chestnuts that I had gathered by the wheelburrow. The last 3 GOS were a bit fatty but taste great.
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Are pumpkins hard to grow. I have plenty of room.
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Actually I did not plant any seed last year when I started the courgettes and butternut. Somehow I had 4 plants growing out of last years compost and about 8 growing in veg beds that I had spread compost on!. I transplanted about 6 - each into about 2 feet diameter 12 inch deep mounds of rotted manure. It gets hot here so I did water each plant. My guess is that they ran to about 8-10 meters over unweeded grass land.
We got quite a few from our 12 plants !! :-J
(http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZyjKm5_zuYVewhcbHmZLRlclaMt5jZcCCoCkzEdqbZ8=w276-h207-p-no)