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Bigal · 25-03-2010, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Christina Websell[_2_]

"bob" wrote in message
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Good afternoon ,does anyone know of a dairy farm in the leeds area who
would let us collect some cow manure,i want to try a method of using i
heard about where you fill a hessian sack and dump it in a barrel for
a week and use the liquid as a tomato feed,dairy farms around leeds
seem to be fewer and fewer these days,tia

Drive out into the countryside until you see some cows or sheep in a field
(sheep muck works just as well) park your car, nip over the fence and
collect it from the ground.
I well remember as a child our Sunday afternoon trip out in the car with my
grandfather to collect sheep droppings for exactly this purpose. You do
have to dilute the resulting *tea* though, and it's better started when the
weather is a bit warmer. Oh and it takes more than a week of dunking to get
it brewing to the correct stinkiness.
TBH, I've never known it done with cow pats but hey, why not try?

Tina

Any manure should do the job. I can get cow manure and alpaca manure delivered, or walk on to some common land and collect sheep manure, but l'm quite happy to use dried chicken manure. It's not as heavy to carry and you can use as much or as little as you want.

Bigal