Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy.Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape--from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Home gardens can be great chicken habitats if designed well, and Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies provides a plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive.Gardening with Free-Range Chicken For Dummies offers guidance and step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing a host of different chicken garden plans. Plus, you'll get detailed information on the best plants and landscaping materials for your chicken garden (and the ones to avoid), seasonal considerations, attractive fencing options, predator and pest control, and much more.* An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummies and Building Chicken Coops For Dummies* A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a chicken garden* Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautiful gardenIf you're looking for step-by-step advice on building a chicken garden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies has you covered.

Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Gardening and Chickens 7Chapter 1: Joining Forces: Companion Gardening with Chickens 9Chapter 2: Preparing Your Garden for Chickens 33Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Family for Chickens 63Chapter 4: Creating Your Space for Free-Range Chickens 83Part II: Designing a Chicken-Friendly Garden 101Chapter 5: Creating a Safe and Smart Garden Space: Landscape Material Ideas 103Chapter 6: From Garden to Pasture: Perfect Plantings for All Your Needs 125Chapter 7: Growing Good Eats for Chickens and People 147Chapter 8: From Lawns to Poisonous Plants: Other Landscape Considerations 165Part III: Chicken Care: Tending to Your Flock 181Chapter 9: Know Thy Flock: Understanding Chicken Behaviors 183Chapter 10: Caring for Chickens: Predators, Sickness, Injury, and Death 199Part IV: The Part of Tens 221Chapter 11: Ten Common Chicken Problems Solved 223Chapter 12: Ten Benefi cial Tools and Aids to Have 229Chapter 13: Ten Ways to Get Really Fancy 237Index 245