"0tterbot" wrote in message
"Tish" wrote in message

The main reason I've heard for composting horse poo before using
it on
the garden is weed seeds. Horses are not ruminants, like cattle,
sheep and goats, and the horse gut processes food more quickly and
less efficiently than a ruminant gut. As a result, a lot more
weed
seeds get through in viable condition. The heat of a well
constructed
compost heap is thought to be sufficient to kill any weed seeds
that
make it through Dobby's gut.

hm. when i get my next load i'll see if i can compost some, just to
see how
it goes (i don't think i'm the world's best composter, quite
frankly).

Dont' beat yourself up about not being a great composter :-)) The old
traditional way of composting (bins that need turnign regularly) is
for the birds IMHO. I now do lots of differnt types of composting and
they all work - sheet composting, trench composting (ocassionally),
tumble bins and anaerobic bins (the ones that sit on the ground opena
t the bottom with a lid on top). the traditional bins are now just
used as colelction points for composting material, but even if I don't
get roudn to using that material in the other forms of compost, it too
eventually rots down into usable 'compost'.

but i
really didn't have weeds from the last lot - i spread it over the
potatoes &
things like sheet mulch almost, & not a weed to be seen! (when i
told my
neighbour she seemed surprised as well - so i don't know how unusual
that
might be!!)

It's not. I have had the same expeerience and for some years now.

my neighbour amazes me in that she has loads of horse poo & NEVER
uses it! i
say she's doing me a huge favour but she says i'm doing her a huge
favour!!

I have the same situation with my neighbour. Licky for us that they
don't know any different.