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In the ld french gardening you used around 300 tons of manure to the acre of
garden, but when horses were the only form of transport you had no problem
geting the quantities, and any way if the folkes in the Big house had a
stable of a dozen or so horses you were fairly self supporting for manure
for the garden.
Ahhhhhh....... those were the days.

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David Hill
Abacus Nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Thank you David, interesting and helpful information :-)
kate