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Post by shadetree on Jul 1, 2015 19:05:23 GMT -5
I should know this, but how old should horse manure be before adding it to the garden? It is manure that is in the stall with hay and such. Is it a good manure to use? What is the best animal manure to use? Thanks everyone.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 1, 2015 19:52:16 GMT -5
All manure should be composted first. If it is in the stall it must be relatively fresh.
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Post by desertwoman on Jul 1, 2015 20:06:10 GMT -5
If it is fresh, wait 3 months or so to use it. You can put fresh manure on your garden beds in the fall, to compost over the winter.
I use poultry manure, simply because that is what is readily available to me. I say, use what you can easily get!
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 1, 2015 20:33:37 GMT -5
I put mine in the compost pile and let it help the pile heat up. I have chicken manure from the small coop and occasionally I bring home a 5 gallon bucket of horse manure.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jul 1, 2015 22:11:19 GMT -5
My sister shovels it from they stables into a pile outside. I just shovel from the old side of the piles once a year. You can see when the straw or wood shavings are well rotted.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 2, 2015 3:00:53 GMT -5
Sheep manure is good too. Dad used to swear by it, but his farmer friend no longer has sheep. So now he takes what he can get.
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Post by kimmsr🕊 on Jul 2, 2015 6:27:49 GMT -5
As a general rule of thumb the Center For Disease Control and the National Institute of Health, as well as years of advice from the Rodale Institute, animal manures should not be spread on a garden sooner than 90 days before harvest of above ground crops or 120 days before harvest of root crops.
It is most bestest to compost all animal manures before applying to the garden.
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Post by James on Jul 2, 2015 6:57:47 GMT -5
Animal manures are great fertilizer. Apply them in the fall after harvest and till it in.
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Post by OregonRed on Jul 2, 2015 10:09:37 GMT -5
I compost manures all fall and winter, before I plant in them. I have used:
horse rabbit goat chicken worm castings
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Post by ncgarden on Jul 4, 2015 18:59:32 GMT -5
Usually, I wait until the horse manure is no longer shaped in "apples" - 6-8 months. But I have also spread reasonably fresh manure on the garden in the fall and tilled it in the next spring.
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Post by kimmsr🕊 on Jul 5, 2015 5:52:36 GMT -5
Keep in mind that animal manures piled up and left to "mature? can lose much of the nutrient value through leaching and escaping to the atmosphere. That distinctive odor from manure piles is nutrients gassing off. If animal manures are to be piled up for any length of time the should be properly composted, mixed 1 part manure to 3 parts vegetative waste and never left piled up to "age" even if some bedding material is mixed in. Bedding material, straw, wood chips, sawdust, shredded leaves, can be part of the vegetative mix.
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