spring garden notes
ventured out to check vegetable garden today .......I'm in michigan and
this is first day this year temp has risen above 50° i covered carrots with a large amount of straw last fall.... could only find a handful of about 10 or 12 pounds that i was expecting to find. looks like the mice?? got most of them. tilled mucho horse manure into soil last fall and covered with wheat straw..........lots of wheat berries in the straw and it grew few inches before it got real cold......i read that wheat was an annual and that the wheat would die off by spring........but that did not happen...... soil is still wet, thought not soggy.....is it ok to plant peas and lettuce? TIA............. |
spring garden notes
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spring garden notes
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spring garden notes
Brooklyn1 wrote:
but horse manure always contains lots of seeds don't use it unless it's been hot composted to kill the seeds. No, you are over generalising. It depends on what the horses have been eating. There are plenty of situations where horses on either hard feed or pasture do not eat viable seeds. If you don't know then test some first and if it sprouts then hot compost it. There are other reasons why you might want to know the provenance of your manure as well, such as the possibility of contamination. David |
spring garden notes
David Hare-Scott wrote:
.... No, you are over generalising. It depends on what the horses have been eating. There are plenty of situations where horses on either hard feed or pasture do not eat viable seeds. If you don't know then test some first and if it sprouts then hot compost it. There are other reasons why you might want to know the provenance of your manure as well, such as the possibility of contamination. from my reading of the OPs post i'm thinking they knew it had seeds in it but was just mistaken that seeds/sprouts would survive the winter. songbird |
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