Have you got chickens, great, make next years liquid fertilizer and feed now.

[Donny]

Hi all

I have had chickens for years, Each year I make around 80 litres of manure for the end of season ground treatment and 40 litres to help the toms and other plants grow nicely.

I am not trying to teach anyone to suck eggs ( pardon the pun), but collect your chicken poo, straw included, add to an old dustbin, fill with water, stir, 1 week later collect the straw from the top and stir, same a week later, now draw off the liquid and put 10 litres into a 40 litre drum and top off with water.

Store from now till you need it next year but add to your water can as 1/2 gallon to 2 gallons of water.

Better then mirical grow..

Donny

[chopoliz]

I used to make a lot of chicken manure tea, but found that when it splashed on me (and TONS of it did, since i used 5 ga buckets and they were heavy and awkward for me to lift) it was just too stinky. I am thinking now of having my husband drill a hole in the side of the buckets about 2" up from the bottom, inserting a 3/4" bulkhead fitting with a male thread on the outside so that a hose bib can be screwed on the outside. Nice and neat. But here is my question: how soon can you use this tea to water your veggies without having to worry about possible e coli contamination or other bacteria?

[VirginVegGrower]

Mine gets added to the compost pile and that's my weed/feed mulch I add to the top of my raised beds.