A person can get pretty creative with old farm junk. Old rusty chicken feeders and waterers make interesting and even quirky planters.
This old rabbit feeder stuffed with pansies and lobelia hangs on my feed room door.
The sedums and Ajuga come up every year all by themselves. I have only to remember to bring the junk out from behind the chicken pens where I hide it during the winter months. Sometimes I add a little topsoil or compost .
This pile of farm junk sits at the fence line separating our back yard from the woods behind the house and close to my chicken & sheep pens. Momma hen has been taking her new little chicks for walks around the junk . The hummingbirds are enjoying the blue Ajuga spires. The wild birds perch on the old stuff as if I put it there especially for them.
I have a bit more junk stashed away . My visit to the
Country Chicks event in Rochester, WA last week has inspired me to use it all or get rid of it. ( I know which option my husband is hoping for.)
