The Poultry Keeper

robgodfrey · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: Onions after hens?

I have moved the hens run to a new location in the garden and I am left with a nice bare patch of soil that the chicks have pecked/scratched clear of all vegetation.
I was wondering if this would be a good place to grow onions - would the soil be suitably manured by the chicks or too rich (the run has been there about 6 months)?

mcleod-girls · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:51 am Post subject:

Sounds fine, but watch out if there is a lot of manure in it as this needs a good few months to rot down otherwise it will be too rich. to speed up the process you could cover it with black plastic. Anything that requires a rich soil would do well. Very Happy

fairislefaerie · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 542

Onions like a rich freshly matured soil, just select your onions right, the bigger bulbed variety would excel as it takes a lot of ompff in the soil to get them to standard.

Angela