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Horse manure
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Posted: Nov/26/2007 7:50 AM PST
I have a neighbor that I had never met that has some horses. I went down the this past Saturday to ask if I could get some from them. Introduced myself nice conversation. Sunday afternoon they bring to my house what looks like an 18 wheeler full of horse manure. What a find! I won't need ferilizer for a while. We added alot to the compost piles and I will just let the rest of it sit and break down. |
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Posted: Nov/26/2007 9:18 AM PST
I have been using horse manure for years now. My neighbor raises race horses and she keeps her pens clean so she has lots of manure so my youngest takes the wheelbarrow and hauls and hauls some more for me. Two years ago I planted onions, cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli for the first time and spread the manure all around the plants and man did I ever have a veges. This last summer I tried beets, carrots, garlic and celery and spread the manure around the plants and I had another bumper crop. I could never grow any of these veges for I had clay for soil. Now I have very rich soil. The earth worms love me and I love them. Good luck with your horse manure. Tina |
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Posted: Feb/12/2008 8:44 AM PST
Yeah!! Horse manure is for me the very best. I raise my own horses, cows, chickens, duck & etc. We very rarely have any weed seeds come through. It never burns the plants, and it always gives me a spectacular crop!! |
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Posted: May/14/2008 3:07 PM PST
Fellow friends all tout chicken manure as the best, though it has to sit for a year, since it is really hot. But I was looking for some manure this year and found a family trying to get rid of some horse manure. I got a pick-up truck load and dumped it on my compost pile (mountain, now). My mom thought that the de-wormer medicine they give horses would kill earthworms, but I noticed that earthworms in it and they looked alive and well. I've been mixing it into the soil, along with some compost, whenever I plant something this spring. Hope I get the same results! There are numerous horse owners, riding farms around, so I think I'll be able to get free manure whenever. |
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Posted: May/14/2008 4:35 PM PST
We laways used the manure from our neighbor's horses when I was growing up. Just make sure any manure you use is well composted because then it won't smell 
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Posted: Jun/01/2008 2:33 PM PST
My husband raises rabbits and one thing they produce besides more rabbits is rabbit poo! We have tons - I have put it in my garden beds even before it's been well composted and it doesn't burn - things grow incredibly. When composted it makes the most rich black soil! I also own a horse, and my sister-in-law manages the barn, so I have ACCESS to horse manure from her farm that is well aged, but am too lazy to go over there and collect it!! When I have used it it has worked beautifully. |
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Posted: Jun/01/2008 3:31 PM PST
Any kind of manure is good for the garden. Even fish poop is good! If I had a ready source and my neighbors weren't so close, I'd be using horse, cow, chicken, whatever I could get my hands on. Perhaps not exactly my hands. So I had to put in a vote for "earthworms" because my neighbors are close. But also because I think there's a beautiful metaphor in it. The least of the children, y'know? BTW earthworms are totally different creatures from the kind of worms that de-worming medicines get rid of. |
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