Can horse manure age for TOO long?
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How do I age horse manure?
Comments (19)OMG cat litter!!!! Truly, this familiarity with the end results of digestive systems speaks of a deeper (more insane) love of roses than I am prepared to engage with. For a fastidious nation (regarding shower usage and toiletry sales in the US), you sure are happy to grub about in poo!! I have used manure in the past (and definitely never younger than 6 months on an open heap) but usually as a tea since the practice of putting anything around roses, including proprietry fertilisers has always been something of a conundrum because I do not have any visible space. I do not love the practice of heavy mulching since I do not wish to see soil, mulch, hay, bark, and definitely not poo in any form.......I want plants...and more plants....not spaces for fertiliser which can be either dug in at the first or watered on throughout a plant's life. But that's just me. On a less personal note, using manure of any type has become a complete no-no here in the UK unless you are absolutely sure of what pasturage has been used at every stage of a horses (or cows) life and can guarantee no broad leaf weed killers have been deployed. In the UK, we certainly cannot and since most horse-owners have to buy hay at least some of the year, only a fool would risk putting the resulting manure anywhere near their plants.....unless they are completely OK with manure contaminated with clopyralid/amypyralid or any of the later broad-leaf weed killers after 2.4.D. Of course, if you have access to your own horses and own grazing meadows which are unsprayed, then fair enough, but sadly, manure, in whatever form, has become a thing of the past for may gardeners in the UK since we neither trust nor believe farmers to read the tiny print on the labels stating not to be used when hay is going for silage....See Moreaged horse manure worth a 30 mile drive?
Comments (4)I dont know if you have a city refuge or ag center closer to you...but the one we have (in Perry GA) is about 15 miles from me and they use horse, cow etc as well as all the collected OM, leaves, grass etc. It's like black gold...really nice stuff. It's also free and I think it's worth the drive. It has made my flower bed soil wonderful, and I've put it on all my garden areas now as well as spots on my lawn when they get dead spots..and the grass will start growing again with it. I also have picked up horse poo with shavings locally...I have not had it long enough to tell you if it's any good, but I too posted and got good reviews about it, and it was very close by, so I went for it. Maybe you can check out the city trash pick up and see if they give away their compost?...See MoreFree aged horse manure - central NJ
Comments (1)Thanks for the info, Tom! Leslie...See Morefree aged horse manure
Comments (1)A very generous offer, I'm going to take you up on this one of these days....See Moreborderbarb
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