"Jack" wrote in message
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A silly question from a person born and raised in a city and only ever
having veggies from a supermarket, nicely washed and packaged !

Adding horse manure to soil for growing veggies - could you get the
screaming abdabs from the manure, some deadly disease or nasties of some
kind? I see some fellow allotment holders adding fairly fresh manure to
their soil, and I wonder how healthy it is to eat veggies grown in it?

Thanks.


It's not a silly question at all. You *could* get something nasty from it,
but it's unlikely, and long term we're all toast anyway. It doesn't do IMHO
to get too obsessive about what may or may not be in the manure. As others
have said, there are always risks. If for instance you buy pelleted chicken
manure, you don't know what the chickens were fed on, and what was applied
to the crops that became chicken food. How far down the chain can you go?

The way I see it, if you grow your veg without applying chemicals yourself,
and you use natural fertilisers, whether horse, cow, chicken or something
else, you're organic. It's going to be way better than what you buy in the
shops. And of course the immense smug value of knowing that what you're
eating, you grew.

Steve