Hey!😀 Im growing perpetual spinach indoors after your recommendation. Im really excited about it! I just transplanted into 2 gallon pots and strong leaf development already.

Lovely but we wouldn't recommend it to the south africans would we?

We haven't had anything dig under our electric fence no... been trialling it for over 12 months now. Video coming soon 😉👍

@@Selfsufficientme the critters are scared off by the old matey figure 11s :D

I reckon it looks GREAT, Mark and it is clearly functional for you as well. Thanks for sharing. I see that you "targetted" the coop extension. Great use of THAT resource; I never liked the original intended use. I always said the safest place to stand when I was looking down range, was, directly in front. ;) Anyway, loved the video, and the building style. The whole chook coop, run, and free range area looks so natural.

We ended up sinking ours (hardware cloth sized like he has around the base) vertically because we planted wormwood, tansy & rue along the run for the chooks to peck at through their run to help keep mites, worms & other parasites way down. We also figured as the ground shifted over time, we'd end up tripping over it all the time if we installed it horizontally.

Yes, I've done the same to our outer pen (that encloses most of our run) - it has a thick galvanized skirt around the base and it works well 🙂👍

@@Selfsufficientme Plus 1 for the skirt, if it was me I would bend some heavy mesh into an L shape with the vertical short side up the outside of the mesh fence, and the long horizontal side pegged down onto the ground with some sturdy pegs of some kind. As en ex commercial poultry farmer I have a hatred of foxes, they have a killing instinct that goes way beyond killing just for food.

Burying fencing in the ground does work, but just keep in mind it will be there for at least a lifetime. That's a good thing if you intend to leave it there forever, but if a previous landowner did it and you decide you don't want that fence or building there for some reason, it's nearly impossible to dig it out once it's all tangled up and locked down from underneath from roots growing through it. Then you're stuck with just cutting it off the best you can and constantly having wires sticking up out of the ground. Laying the fencing on the ground is very nearly as bad for that. Ask me how I know.... it's NO fun going back and fixing mistakes, especially someone else's screw-ups.>:( Raising the structure up a few inches and putting a skirt of sheet metal around it works *much* better. Even if the structure sits on the ground and/or you bury some of the sheet metal, it will be a *lot* easier to get out if you ever decide to move it. Cut-offs from a new metal roofing project work a treat for that. Don't just think about the cheapest fastest way to do things right now, try to think 5 or 10 or 20 years ahead.

@@dystopiagear6999 Good point. I put stones that are 40x40 cm square around the coop, and then ''normal'' rocks around them. If a fox want to dig into the coop, it has to start 50 cm from the mesh. I would say that should be a safe way to keep them away.

Thanks Vivian! 🙂👍

Have seen chicken runs built around Mulberry trees. Works really well, shade, chooks clean up dropped mulberries and fertilise the trees 😊

Yes its practical for a chicken coop but not a house or commercial building that needs a concrete foundation lol

Good on ya Kelly thank you! 🙂👍

That's great to hear! Thank you and all the best with your self-sufficient journey 🙂👍

Good on ya Josh! 🙂👍

Lol... thanks mate 😁👍

Thanks Tony! The kookaburras laugh at my projects all the time mate... 😁👍

Thanks Lynda! Yes, my vids are more about giving people ideas "food for thought" lol rather than telling how it "must" be done because every place is different and everyone has different materials or needs. All the best 🙂👍

Thanks Dave and I appreciate your kind support from all the way over in the USA cheers mate 😂👍

Thanks Sharon! 🙂

Levintry you’ll need to overengineer the floor. Those coyotes will dig

@@dylanzrim1011 too right. I designed a chicken run for a family member and we got a trencher to dig around 1M down around the perimeter next to the post holes and put some reclaimed galvanised roofing iron sheets in. Has kept any digging pests out so far.

Yes, either dig down and insert mesh or install a mesh skirt around the run or an electric fence to keep k9 out. We have an electric fence around our outer perimeter and a galvanized skirt around our poultry pen which also surrounds most of the chicken run. Poultry are very tempting indeed for larger predators but with the right defences you can keep them mostly worry free. All the best 🙂👍

Christel Christely me too in the USA. 😘

Cool cat enclosure! 🙂👍

yes, i would like to see growing of an drying herbs vid, basil, garlic (drying (i know how to grow it ) dry for herb chips/flakes/ powder to sprinkle on foods , and same for drying capsicum / chilli.

Cate someone in Aussie we would call it coriander

I have done some individual ton vids on herbs eg cilantro kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbSchJB1tKzWnZ8.html also basil and oregano just look though my how to grow a ton of playlist. But I could do a variety herb cluster in a small raised bed that could be interesting... cheers 🙂👍

Yes I'm happy to do more drying and preserving herb vids also thanks for the suggestion 🙂👍

@@Selfsufficientme thanks. need to see how to grow a ton of fennel, by the way on the cilantro is it ok to start them from seed now? (early U.S. autum)

Thanks Linda! 🙂👍

Thanks Cyn! 🙂👍

G'day Asha! Thank you and our weekend was/is a good one - we attended my mother-in-laws 70 birthday. Same to you and God bless 🙂👍

@@Selfsufficientme Hi Mark. Regards and love for that special lady. Happy gardening. Love your videos. Do share videos of snakes too pls. We got grass snake here. Tc. God bless 🌿🌸🏝️