On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:44:30 +0000, Jack wrote
(in article ):

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.




When I was a small lad, and evacuated to Cardiff during the war, I lived with
my grand-mother. In those days there were many, many horses on the roads,
pulling tradesman's carts mainly. Every time a cart went past, grannie
would shoot out onto the street with a bucket and spade kept for that purpose
and collect the horse manure deposited on the road by the passing horse. The
manure then went straight onto her rhubarb and vegetables. And by god, I
remember her rhubarb tart to this day. It didn't do me any harm, and it was
normal practice in the street where she lived. In fact it used to be quite a
competition to see who could get out there first. Happy days.