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Dehydrated Cow Manure
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 |
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Dehydrated Cow Manure
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dehydrated Cow Manure (take 2)
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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 |
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Dehydrated Cow Manure (take 2)
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 |
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Dehydrated Cow Manure
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... 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. |
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