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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
ted wrote:
FarmI wrote: "Trish Brown" wrote in message ... IME, horse poo really *is* the nectar of the gods! It breaks down easily, is easy to handle, is moderately available (there's always a pony club or horse-mad teenager somewhere nearby) and, best of all, it doesn't smell too bad. :-)) I don't think any poo used in the garden smells bad, but then Himself regularly says I have a shit fetish as I yet again enthuse about the value of poo for the garden. In years gone by, I was able to use the shovellings from our own stables (wood-shavings with poo) and that's the best fertiliser/mulch combo I've ever struck. Did no end of good to me roses as well as the few veggies I was growing at the time. I dislike cow-poo for purely subjective reasons: it smells bad (to my nose, anyway) and it behaves like ready-mix concrete, forming nasty little tam o'shanters on hitting the ground and then crusting over to fool you into believing it's safe to pick up in your hands. Hah! Forget cow-poo! :-)) You just need more experience or a short handled shovel. I like cow poops but since our cattle camp rather a long way from where my garden is, and it's a pain to colect individual plops in the paddock rather than from the cattle camping area, i don't use as much cow poop as I do horse. I wouldn't use carnivore-poo, simply because I'm aware of the nasty parasites that can live in it (much worse, IMHO, than those occuring in herbivore-poo). Of course, the fact that my dog and cat both enjoy leaving gratuitous deposits on my rose garden doesn't fill my heart with song, but there y'go: y'can't win 'em all. Something deep in my soul balks at using hay for mulch. The fact that some poor, starving animal could be surviving on it stops me from spreading it over my soil. It depends on the hay and I think we've been using that term more loosely here than perhaps we should have done. Lucerne hay is not good animal food - it's like feeding chocolate to children - more nutrient value than is needed and really should only be used for animals that need to be tempted to eat. Meadow hay is the best herbivore food and that is the one hay that really should only be used for animals. Hay that really is straw, is fine to use in the garden because it might only be eaten by starving animals and then you'd need so much supplimentation for them to digest it that you'd be better spending the money on meadow hay. Straw is good garden muclh and other than that is really only good for animal bedding or nest boxes for chooks. Instead, I've recently graduated to using sugar-cane mulch and it's reasonably OK. It plays merry-harry with me asthma (dust), but it's doing a pretty good job of preserving soil moisture for me, so it'll do for now. I've used straw and it's OK too, but breaks down surprisingly quickly. I've often thought it'd be great to be able to whack it through a chaff-cutter and make it a bit more friable, IYKWIM. I too don't mind the sugar cane mulch and I agree about that bloody dust! Newcastle, NSW, Australia hello all Just a quick question about Australian natives. I have an area of my garden that is very over planted with Australian natives is it possible to replant them in another area or is that a waste of time as i was told they don't like being moved and rarely survive. abigail My other question is, how do i start a new topic instead of riding piggy back on the last message hmmmmm if that makes sense. As you may have guessed I am new to the world of newsgroups. abigail |
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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
ted wrote:
My other question is, how do i start a new topic instead of riding piggy back on the last message hmmmmm if that makes sense. As you may have guessed I am new to the world of newsgroups. abigail It depends on the news reader that you are using. For example; using outlook express when I am browsing this newsgroup I can click a button that says "New post" and it will start a fresh one that will go to this newsgroup. Have you looked in the help for your reader under something like "new post"? David |
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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:42:05 +0000, ted wrote:
My other question is, how do i start a new topic instead of riding piggy back on the last message hmmmmm if that makes sense. As you may have guessed I am new to the world of newsgroups. for Pan F is a reply to group on thread. P is make a new post to group selected. |
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