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yeah, right.... dont put it upwind from where you smell. Ingrid

"Ricky" wrote:
Get a couple of hundred pounds of chicken manure and mix it with a good
quality, clean, top soil.

Yeah, RIGHT. I built a raised garden for vegetables many years ago in our
first house. The garden was 8 feet wide and 24 feet long and 3 feet high. I
mixed in 300 pounds of chicken manure in the late fall. The vegetables I got
that spring and every spring for 12 years after that were the most flavorful
and healthy I've ever grown. We grew eggplant that was over a foot long and
8 inches wide. Tomatoes that were 4 to 5 inches in diameter, beans,
cucumbers, bell peppers, lettuce, carrots. You name it, everything grew and
grew without stopping until I pulled out the plants the first week in
December. This was at a house in suburban NJ! I've never seen anything work
as well as chicken manure. And by the way, once it was mixed into the soil
and overwintered, there was no smell.