What manure do you use ?

[emzgogo]

Hi all could you please tell me what manure you prefure to use i.e cow, horse Chicken etc. Also why you prefure it any benifit it has to others. Trying to decide what to put on lottie this year and also could you do a mixture of chicken and say horse ? Stupid question i know but answers appreciate thank you x

[WendyC]

We usually have a large delivery at the site of cow manure from the beef cattle less than a mile away. It's cheap and local.

[arpoet]

I have family friend who has 2 old ponies.. i get all they produce, collected every month and layered with spent hops in heaps covered with cardboard for 12 months, then just spread over the soil in November for the worms to dig in for me.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Chicken is very high nitrogen, horse can be very weedy. I use well rotted cow. I also make a lot of compost which I think is better than any of the others.

[Kristen]

Hi all could you please tell me what manure you prefure to use

Donkey (sanctuary nearby). I use Chicken Manure pellets below / around anything I plant out for an iniital boost of nitrogen.

Stupid question i know but answers appreciate thank you

There are no stupid questions

[Guest]

Chicken - purely because I have it. It is meant to be better used for onions and leeks but never noticed a difference.

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Horse usually more readily available and relatively cheap. Also what I was brought up with/ all my Dad ever used.

[Nicos]

I don't go out of my way to select any specific manure, but I have to hand hen and rabbit manure, and a friend is an organic beef farmer, so that's what I tend to use.

I was given a huge delivery of very mature donkey doo a few years ago and greatly regretted it as it was clearly full of weed seeds which hadn't been killed off during the composting process....needless to say I have several more varieties of weed to have to contend with .

[Dorothy rouse]

I use a bit of horse if I can get some and lift the bags into my car, but not all over plot. Use chicken pellets, and home made compost ( not well rotted) cos I'm lazy, and don't chop it up finely, and often leave on top, but works ok.

[emzgogo]

Chicken - purely because I have it. It is meant to be better used for onions and leeks but never noticed a difference.

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Horse usually more readily available and relatively cheap. Also what I was brought up with/ all my Dad ever used.

Great to know as I have alot of chicken poop (4coops winter, 8summer). Put loads on veg patch. Used horse last yr. Was wondering if to order more or just stick with chicken. Or both. X

[emzgogo]

I don't go out of my way to select any specific manure, but I have to hand hen and rabbit manure, and a friend is an organic beef farmer, so that's what I tend to use.

I was given a huge delivery of very mature donkey doo a few years ago and greatly regretted it as it was clearly full of weed seeds which hadn't been killed off during the composting process....needless to say I have several more varieties of weed to have to contend with .

I must admit i had mushrooms growing in the muck i used last year
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[noviceveggrower]

I use the chicken pellets But this year I hope to get a pallet bin put together to rot some rabbit poo and straw from a local rabbit rescue place. Also have some comfrey seeds so hope to grow that and do some comfrey tea.

[Kristen]

Also have some comfrey seeds so hope to grow that and do some comfrey tea.

I strongly recommend that you don't grow Comfrey from seed, the resulting plants will self-seed all over your plot.

Get some roots of Bocking-14 variety, which has sterile seeds. Should be readily available from other plotholders on an allotment, or eBay. Just roots will do, it grows easily enough so you don't need a plant, per se.

[noviceveggrower]

Thanks for that Kristen. Didn't know that.

[Nicos]

Oh...and of course , I forgot to say we use our own compost!

[Two_Sheds]

tell me what manure you prefure to use

parrot & guinea pig on the allotment, dogs' on the flower borders at home

... because that's the manure what I've got
(why do I compost dog poop? because I don't think the taxpayer should pay to dispose of my pets' waste; I put as little as possible into landfill; I compost absolutely anything that can be composted)

Trying to decide what to put on lottie

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