Specialty Gardening: So what makes a Cottage Garden, well, "Cottagey"?, 1 by Tammy

Tammy wrote:
My chickens run around free during the day and get shut in during the night. Protected from the
racoons & foxes. But let me tell ya - they love digging & rootin' around in loose dirt! This past spring
I had to put chicken wire over several beds to give my plants a chance to settle in. The chickens
just kept digging them out. LOL (I was ready to have a big chicken BBQ when they dug out several
hundred dollars worth of terrestrial orchids. ... well not really but I was mighty annoyed!)

Here's a riotous bed I keep thinking of digging out and trying again but ... I never do. Its stuffed
with everything!