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Fresh horse manure-stack or use
I have been collecting some horse manure with barley straw in the last
couple of days.Hard work bagging it up and I hope that it does not contain any aminopyralid. I have stacked it a compost heap on my allotment and covered it. I am wondering when is the sensible time to use it,either for digging in soon to improve my sandy soil,putting in trenches under potatoes or putting it around fruit trees.Some of my plotholder neighbours seem to put it on fairly fresh as they argue that the straw is the best constituent of the manure (rather than the added nitrogen),and if one leaves it too long,you lose its benefit.Some others dig in bales of straw for improving the water holding capacity. So why is it necessary to use well rotted manure? Michael |
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Fresh horse manure-stack or use
On Jan 18, 12:32*pm, michael wrote:
I have been collecting some horse manure with barley straw in the last couple of days.Hard work bagging it up and I hope that it does not contain any aminopyralid. I have stacked it a compost heap on my allotment and covered it. I am wondering when is the sensible time to use it,either for digging in soon to improve my sandy soil,putting in trenches under potatoes or putting it around fruit trees.Some of my plotholder neighbours seem to put it on fairly fresh as they argue that the straw is the best constituent of the manure (rather than the added nitrogen),and if one leaves it too long,you lose its benefit.Some others dig in bales of straw for improving the water holding capacity. So why is it necessary to use well rotted manure? Michael Best left a while to rot. Best of all if you can selectively pick the rotted stuff out of the pile of shit when you collect it. :-) If you have a sandy soil, stuff you add doesn't last long, the benefits disappear quickly. Good for root crops but not cabbages etc. However root crops don't like fresh manure. |
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Fresh horse manure-stack or use
"harry" wrote in message ... On Jan 18, 12:32 pm, michael wrote: I have been collecting some horse manure with barley straw in the last couple of days.Hard work bagging it up and I hope that it does not contain any aminopyralid. I have stacked it a compost heap on my allotment and covered it. I am wondering when is the sensible time to use it,either for digging in soon to improve my sandy soil,putting in trenches under potatoes or putting it around fruit trees.Some of my plotholder neighbours seem to put it on fairly fresh as they argue that the straw is the best constituent of the manure (rather than the added nitrogen),and if one leaves it too long,you lose its benefit.Some others dig in bales of straw for improving the water holding capacity. So why is it necessary to use well rotted manure? Michael Best left a while to rot. Best of all if you can selectively pick the rotted stuff out of the pile of shit when you collect it. :-) If you have a sandy soil, stuff you add doesn't last long, the benefits disappear quickly. Good for root crops but not cabbages etc. However root crops don't like fresh manure. ------------ never put fresh chicken manure on anything. Killed my rhubarb, burnt it to bits. Seemed a good idea at the time. Tina |
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