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Horse manure
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phorbin wrote: In article , ask@itshall says... "phorbin" wrote in message ... In article , says... "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in u: Only if you don't weed often enough :-)) True enough, you can buy strilised topsoil and in a week or so there come the weeds through the damn stuff, and out comes the hoe as always. At retail outlets you can see bags of sterilized topsoil storedhttp://bigthink.com/ideas/25574 outdoors, sprouting weeds. :-))) Would you trust any 'soil' that didn't sprout something or other when given half a chance.? It amuses me that weed seeds make it through the sterilization process, muscle their way throught the holes in the bags and continue to grow along quite happily throughout the season. With that said, I don't trust any soil that wasn't made right here. I have no trust for anything but organic manure produced on organic farms. -- The Aminopyralid issue has not gone away and I'm unwilling to risk contaminating our organic garden with it. I've always hoped that the half lives of most contaminates are short. All the talk of organic pesticides in non-organic terms I thought of as malathion or seven breaks down in about 20 years. Mere pittance in time compared to TEL or Strodium 90. Anyway Happy Solstice! Seems the eclipse and solstice occurs about every 500 years. ................. Rare Cosmic Event to Transpire Tuesday Morning http://bigthink.com/ideas/25574 Ps Merry Christmas now back to trying to making Limpa -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden "Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything." --Mark Twain. |
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Horse manure
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Bill who putters wrote: In article , phorbin wrote: In article , ask@itshall says... "phorbin" wrote in message ... In article , says... "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in u: Only if you don't weed often enough :-)) True enough, you can buy strilised topsoil and in a week or so there come the weeds through the damn stuff, and out comes the hoe as always. At retail outlets you can see bags of sterilized topsoil storedhttp://bigthink.com/ideas/25574 outdoors, sprouting weeds. :-))) Would you trust any 'soil' that didn't sprout something or other when given half a chance.? It amuses me that weed seeds make it through the sterilization process, muscle their way throught the holes in the bags and continue to grow along quite happily throughout the season. With that said, I don't trust any soil that wasn't made right here. I have no trust for anything but organic manure produced on organic farms. -- The Aminopyralid issue has not gone away and I'm unwilling to risk contaminating our organic garden with it. I've always hoped that the half lives of most contaminates are short. All the talk of organic pesticides in non-organic terms I thought of as malathion or seven breaks down in about 20 years. Mere pittance in time compared to TEL or Strodium 90. Anyway Happy Solstice! Seems the eclipse and solstice occurs about every 500 years. ................ Rare Cosmic Event to Transpire Tuesday Morning http://bigthink.com/ideas/25574 Ps Merry Christmas now back to trying to making Limpa BTW here is what it may look like. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden "Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything." --Mark Twain. |
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Horse manure
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: Dee wrote: "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in u: I wonder how many people here have ever killed anything with any sort of fertiliser? I know I haven't. Anyone want to put up their hand and tell us if you have and if you did, what did you do? I didn't, but my next-door neighbor did. One spring we both went to a horse farm and loaded up our small pickup beds with manure. The manure was maybe 1-3 months old (my best guess - I used to work with horses). I spread the manure in my veggie garden, keeping it at least 8 inches away from the base of any plant. Most of it went around the edges and in the paths of the garden. I then covered the paths with fresh straw so I wouldn't be walking in manure. That summer (and the following summer) I had the biggest, healthiest plants ever, giving the most prolific yields ever, and the produce was the best and tastiest that I ever received out of that garden. Sounds right. Meanwhile, my neighbor, using the same manure forked from the same pile, spread it at the base of all his plants. In another part of his garden where he had not yet planted anything, he tilled the manure into the soil and then a week or so later put in more plants. That summer he lost more than half the garden. The plants growing in the tilled area died first, rather quickly, within a month or so. The plants that had manure at their base struggled the entire summer to live, either producing very little or nothing, and then died a long drawn-out death. Dee This is entirely at odds with my experience. I cannot picture 1-3 month old horse manure doing this. Once it has rotted for a few months you can plant straight into it, I have a very vigorous self-seeded pumpkin growing in the manure pile right now. I would say the neighbour added something else (like a chemfert) and didn't tell you. David I could not imagine that he added chemferts. He is *very* (as in, *extremely*) organic. He has gardened organically for over 30 years. I think it's more likely that I was probably wrong about how aged the manure was. It had broken down very little in the pile, and we were forking from the top (therefore from more recent additions). Apparently the manure was fresh enough to burn and kill the roots of new transplants. Dee |
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I use it all the time. In addition to providing nutrition, improved soil
Texture. I made double the height of the expected growth of the rose and pumpkin Vine small building envelopes and slow animals.
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