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17-10-2008, 10:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Manure
On 17/10/08 19:27, in article
, "Christina
Websell" wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message
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I'm preparing an area of garden for growing vegetables later this /
early next year - is it OK to dig "fresh" manure into the planting
area then leave it for a few weeks, or should it be rotted beforehand?
What sort of fresh manure are you talking about? Horse, cow, sheep,
chicken?
I killed my rhubarb stone dead when I was a newbie gardener by putting fresh
manure from my chickens on it. I thought it would do it good..
I now rot all manure down on my 2 compost heaps for a year, even better, two
,when it looks like soil again and can be dug in or used as a mulch with
abandon ;-)
Isn't chicken manure especially notorious for burning off plants? If it's
not rotted down, it can be diluted a lot in buckets of water and used that
way. I think the same goes for cow manure but chicken is even more
powerful, supposedly - no idea of which ingredients account for that!
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