I hope horse manure is as good as everyone says

As The Thread says over the past few months on here Reading Every 1s Knowledge about Horse Manure Iv Finerley Bought 10 bags

As a Kid My Dearest Uncle used to collect it HE Would Stop the Car an Austin A40 In Any Country Lane and collect it FRESH Take it home add it to his pile to rot As a Kid I Used to Heave my Guts up

He would just Laff and Say Deep Breath Lad Its Good For YA
iT Smells LOVELY

Other Fond and Mad Memorys of a Famerly Member this week end

I Adaored This uncle like a Dad

The Only Thing I DID NOT LIKE ABOUT HIM!!!!

HE WOULD STOP AND COLECT HORSE POO EVERY CHANCE HE GOT
Iv Took the Plunge or Bit the Bullet excuse the punn!!!!

iv just bought 10 bags for £12 to support a local farmer

Free Delivery and Even Gave another Bag for Free

Told Me Its WELL ROTTED

JUST Thinking Of Being a Kid Again i DONT WANT TO START SCREAMING IN THE GARDEN Wish Me Luck

 

Thats a bargain , what are you going to use it on plus what type is it ?

Straw , wood shavings lots of diffrent ones

Folly dont worry many a day I would see my mother rushing out to the road with a shovel , I would stay in the house if any of my mates out playing.

But she had the best roses in the Avenue thats a fact !! and the biggest rhubarb
Thats what I like about theis forum it gives you the oppertunity to talk a load of Bull
Spruce

 

Folly mon,
Suggest you make sure you have a "light breakfast" (no Ulster fry) before setting to. It's all good character building stuff this Folly mon. It'll make a MAN of you,

 

Before using mix a bit with compost and plant a couple of runner bean seeds also do 2 pots with just compost and plant 2x seeds and check progress over 6 week after germination just to check their is no weed killer residue in the muck.

 

just before i red this post BULL AT A GATE ME!!!! Its ALL DUG IN MY Borders

NOW I"m WORRIED I Hadent Got Any Where to Store it IT Was On My Font Drive Looking A Mess As OH Terms it!!!! GUTTED NOW!!!! NEVER NEW OR THOUGHT THEY PUT WEED KILLER IN IT

 

Now you'll be checking your plants every day for wilting. I'm sure they'll be fine Nick.

 

you might wish they put weedkiller in it

some people say that you get loads of weeds when using horse manure

 

I think you said it was well rotted Nick, therefore it wont be smelly or anything, it will just look like good, very dark, rich compost. Also most weed killers will be long gone. There was some outrage a couple of years or so again when it came to light that one chemical was surviving the trip through a cow's digestive tract and was going on to cause harm to young plants, but I'm almost certain that chemical got banned, and in any case even before the situation came to light, I don't think that many farmers started using it. In other words, I think the weed killer residue risk is very low.

 

I used two lots of our horses poo last year, both rotted about six months. The stuff I dug well underground before winter hasn't sprouted any weeds and has rotted "away". The stuff I used as a mulch has some amount of grass growing in it now. So in future I'll be digging in well (so it's not visible) and NOT using as a mulch.

I'll also be composting it for at least 12 months next time, but I was in a rush last year

But the rhubarb has been AWESOME !

 

horse manure is different to cow manure .... a horse has a different digestive system, seeds pass intact through a horse's digestive system ... hence the occurance or lots more weeds

another prob I read about is that most horse manure comes with sawdust, which if not properly composted, leaches nitrogen from the soil

a few years back, horse manure was banned from allotments due to some or other spores found in it

but saying that, I have read more good reports than bad

 

Many seeds can also pass through a cow intact. In fact it is a cheap way to establish a wild flower meadow. Instead of forking out for enough mixed seed to do 20 acres say, you buy enough to do one acre, establish that, then let cows in to graze it, but keep them moving through that patch, so they eat the seed heads with the grass, then poo them out in a different spot.

Next time you walk through a field grazed by cattle, take note of the cow pats. This time of year they are often loaded with seedlings, although unfortunately its usually creeping buttercup.

 

Manure or no manure the weeds keep turning up at my pad Follymon....no worries...we live and learn

 

Well folly. It looks like your in deep S***

You'll let us know when the flowers take over the garden like triffids - won't you.
If you're worried, plant Spuds. They'll appreciate your efforts