The cow manure you buy in 40 pound bags at hardware stores, I'm
thinking of adding to my vegetable bed. I'm wondering if it will burn
my young plants? I want to till it into the soil along with some all
purpose granular fertilizer and compost about 6 weeks before I plant the
bed. Also, how many pounds of manure should I ad for every 100 sq ft?

Rich

EVP MAN wrote:
The cow manure you buy in 40 pound bags at hardware stores, I'm
thinking of adding to my vegetable bed. I'm wondering if it will burn
my young plants?

No but the chemfert will if it is too strong. Allowing 6 weeks rest it
will be OK if you don't overdo it.

I want to till it into the soil along with some all
purpose granular fertilizer and compost about 6 weeks before I plant
the bed. Also, how many pounds of manure should I ad for every 100
sq ft?

Rich

I don't know in terms of weight but I spread horse and cow about 5cm (2in)
thick and turn it in (or not).

David

On the slow release fertilizer granules they call for 5 pounds per 100
sq ft. Perhaps I should cut that in half when adding the cow manure
also. It's 4-6-4 fertilizer.

Rich

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:30:22 -0500, (EVP MAN)
wrote:


The cow manure you buy in 40 pound bags at hardware stores, I'm
thinking of adding to my vegetable bed. I'm wondering if it will burn
my young plants? I want to till it into the soil along with some all
purpose granular fertilizer and compost about 6 weeks before I plant the
bed. Also, how many pounds of manure should I ad for every 100 sq ft?

Rich


Although somewhat low in nutrition numbers, cow manure can indeed burn
young plants. A bag every 100 sq feet tilled in sounds about right,
much less if not tilled in. I found using both manure and inorganic
fertilizers when tilling give the bestter yielding plants. You still
got to be careful, some plants, like peppers, are sensitive to too
much nitrogen.

"EVP MAN" wrote in message
...

The cow manure you buy in 40 pound bags at hardware stores, I'm
thinking of adding to my vegetable bed. I'm wondering if it will burn
my young plants?

No it won't burn.

In article ,
Phisherman wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:30:22 -0500, (EVP MAN)
wrote:


The cow manure you buy in 40 pound bags at hardware stores, I'm
thinking of adding to my vegetable bed. I'm wondering if it will burn
my young plants? I want to till it into the soil along with some all
purpose granular fertilizer and compost about 6 weeks before I plant the
bed. Also, how many pounds of manure should I ad for every 100 sq ft?

Rich

Production Practices and Sample Costs to Produce
Chili Pepper
Chicken manure (three to four tons per acre) is custom applied a week or
more prior to listing (tilling).
http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/Research/chili.html

100 sq.ft. = 0.0022956841 acre.
8,000#/acre = 18.37#/ 100 sq.ft.

Manure Chicken Diary cow
N 1.1 .257
P .80 .15
K .50 .25

1.1Chicken/.257Cow = 4.28

4.26 X 4.28 = 78.6236 lbs cow./100 sq. ft.

Make that 2 forty lb. bags / 100 sq. ft.


Although somewhat low in nutrition numbers, cow manure can indeed burn
young plants. A bag every 100 sq feet tilled in sounds about right,
much less if not tilled in. I found using both manure and inorganic
fertilizers when tilling give the bestter yielding plants. You still
got to be careful, some plants, like peppers, are sensitive to too
much nitrogen.
--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

In article ,
Phisherman wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:30:22 -0500, (EVP MAN)
wrote:


The cow manure you buy in 40 pound bags at hardware stores, I'm
thinking of adding to my vegetable bed. I'm wondering if it will burn
my young plants? I want to till it into the soil along with some all
purpose granular fertilizer and compost about 6 weeks before I plant the
bed. Also, how many pounds of manure should I ad for every 100 sq ft?

Rich

Production Practices and Sample Costs to Produce
Chili Pepper
Chicken manure (three to four tons per acre) is custom applied a week or
more prior to listing (tilling).
http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/Research/chili.html

100 sq.ft. = 0.0022956841 acre.
8,000#/acre = 18.37#/ 100 sq.ft.

Manure Chicken Diary cow
N 1.1 .257
P .80 .15
K .50 .25

1.1Chicken/.257Cow = 4.28

18.37 X 4.28 = 78.6236 lbs cow./100 sq. ft.

Make that 2 forty lb. bags / 100 sq. ft.


Although somewhat low in nutrition numbers, cow manure can indeed burn
young plants. A bag every 100 sq feet tilled in sounds about right,
much less if not tilled in. I found using both manure and inorganic
fertilizers when tilling give the bestter yielding plants. You still
got to be careful, some plants, like peppers, are sensitive to too
much nitrogen.
--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

This bed is virgin soil and never planted before. Perhaps I should go
light on all the amendments. I do have quite a bit of leaf mold from
last falls leaves that will also be added. I thought that perhaps the
addition of the leaf mold which is brown material may deplete the soil
of nitrogen. This is my main reason for adding the manure and also the
general purpose granular fertilizer.

Rich