chicken manure pellets

[hawthorns]

would chicken manure pellets aid my onions and shallots. i have them in a raised bed which i incorporated some horse manure, it was added in december. all my onions and shallots are growing nicely.

or would blood fish and bone do the same job.

[Novice Gardener]

I'm watching this for any replies, as I bought some today in B&Q 0 half price - just under a fiver for a HUGE tub. I was told I could just kind of scatter this on my beds (i was thinking of my flower beds rather than veg beds) but then someone else told me I need to dig it in????? Any advice here??? Thanks

[smallblueplanet]

Not advice as such, but just to say we put it in most things - sort of universal panacea!

[hawthorns]

i ve heard that its very acidic

[helly]

I put some in my veg beds yesterday, hope i've done the right thing, if not alot of sieving out to do this weekend

[jeannine]

It's great stuff and also useful on the compost heap as an activator!

[mrdinkle]

I put some chicken pooh pellets on my beds - raked it in and it's rained since then so they have broken down good.

I would have dug some horse pooh in as well but my wife is not making it easy to pass the place where I can get the pooh. She no want it in the car. I did tell her that I will put it in sacks - not loose.

[Paulottie]

I don't think it makes much difference if you use blood fish and bone or chicken guano for Onions though the chicken has a proportionally higher nitrogen content (which is great for onions and anything leafy)

BFB is more balanced food useful for fruits and roots- and thus probably better on your flower borders.

You don't need to dig either in a bit of a rake/hoe around is sufficient; but do try and get it between and not on the plants...particularly if pelleted, it should not touch the stems.

[Eyren]

I would have dug some horse pooh in as well but my wife is not making it easy to pass the place where I can get the pooh. She no want it in the car. I did tell her that I will put it in sacks - not loose.

My OH was a bit worried about having open sacks of horse manure in the back of the car, but it turned out to be so well rotted that it actually smelt really nice, like damp earth and hay.

Don't think I'd want fresh manure in there, though!

With my chickens' poo, I leave it out in the fresh air (in an open tub) for a few months to rot down, or just scatter it over the surface of my raised beds in winter - if you use it fresh it's better not to dig it in, as it will take less nitrogen from the soil as it rots, and the worms will eventually bury it anyway.

[mrdinkle]

I scattered the pellets and lightly raked - it's pretty well broken down already within 2 weeks.

I'll get my horse's pooh somehow - you wait and see....!

[lainey lou]

I scattered the pellets and lightly raked - it's pretty well broken down already within 2 weeks.

I'll get my horse's pooh somehow - you wait and see....!

Can you do it in secret? Sneaky I know but what the other half doesn't know and all that....