Hi
I have been watching Victorian Kitchen Garden after hearing about it, it’s really good and has some great tips, one episode showed them making their own liquid manure by placing a fresh cow pat into a muslin sack then placing it into a bath to infuse (just like a tea bag).
Has anyone tried this maybe using farm or horse muck, and is it worth doing?
Yup, do it with horse poo,nice drop of stuff ;D Also tried it with comfrey leaves but it smelled something awful :o I read somewhere that a nice treat for seedlings is a weak mix of manure and nettle water.If I find some nettles I will give it a go.
great tip - will start collecting some nettles
We used to use nettles, Stinks a bit though.
A bag of muck works well and smells less than comfrey or nettles-they do pong a bit!
And when its up you can do the same with Comfrey :)
Okra I used nettles last year, be warned don't let it stand for too long as Shirlton says its stech is awful especially on the hot days. :'( :'( :'( ;D ;D ;D
Mum in law would go and collect sheep droppings and put into water to dissolve and feed her carnations she grew some good ones?
I have done comphrey and old cow muck. Also good is when you clean the filters out of the pool now that is very good stuff highly recomend.
When I was a young lad I earned extra pocket money by collecting bags of dried cow-pats for my dad. Great! Farmer thought I was just collecting cow-pats but I got more dosh for the peewit eggs.
Used in the greenhouse as a daily tonic in the watering can certainly produced the best tomatoes in the village at that time and probably equals or betters any currently available foliar feed.
Personally, I do not rate the comfrey or nettle feed very highly and believe that they should only be used as a last resort when the country runs out of horses. (That's my opinion, not advice).
I've used nettles with some effect at treating bark flaking on a redcurrant. I think it has some useful elements like boron, magnesium and zinc that you don't always get in other feeds.
Also used Rooster pellets left in a bucket of water for a few days, and topped up watering can with the feed, again be warned if left too long the stench becomes unbearable but a good wasp trap ha ha ha. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Hiya....just a question....ive got ALOT of pigieons next door and im going to use this for my liquid feed - just wondering is that ok or is there some dark secret i should be told before i go making some up ??? ::) ::) ::) ::)
thanx
;D LMK ;D
Have you seen what pigeon sh#t does to the paintwork on your car. :( :( :'(
I think solids are more beneficial than liquids and if you can get a cowpat or some comfrey, shove them under your soil rather than turn them into liquid fertilizer.
LMK................i assume you mean pigeon poo.and not the whole pigeons......i would have thought theyd get stuck in the spout of the watering can?......lol :)
seriously tho............dont risk your health by digging up mounds of fresh or dry pigeon poop...........there is a chance that you may pick up somthing from the dust it causes...........not nice!!!!!
Quote from: Stevens706 on March 15, 2007, 11:59:07
muslin sack then placing it into a bath to infuse (just like a tea bag).
Is that with milk and sugar or cream???
Seriously though, I am going to try it this year.
Quote from: little miss knuckles on March 16, 2007, 20:24:39
ive got ALOT of pigieons next door and im going to use this for my liquid feed
As above, I read it the same way, you gonna kill the buggers first!
Thanks for everyones help, I will try it this year with horse muck.
i did a mix last year of chook poo, nettles and weeds - god that stank.... but i watered inthe courgettes and squashes with it - seemed to work.
you think yours stunk, we mixed nettles, weeds comfrey dock roots, water and pee..good grief, it was awful when you took the lid off but, when diluted, it worked ;D
I've got a comfrey butt and a grass cutting butt on my lotties! I did have a nettle one in the greenhouse but my father-in-law FORCED me to tip it away!!!
Do you have to dilute the feed then Manics? Didn't know that. Thanks for the hint :)
We make masses of comfrey "tea" every year - bl***y stuff comes up all over the plot and the roots go yards deep, so we reckon that by cutting it down and making fertilizer out of it we're killing two birds with one stone.
But boy, does it stink!!!!
Never tried horse poo. We've got a stables on-site so there's a great mountain of the stuff to barrow away. During the winter, the liquid from the heap runs away, mainly onto the nearby plot, where Dennis grows the most amazing runner beans, so there's obviously something in it. Might try making some this year.
Trevor
Quote from: Trixiebelle on March 19, 2007, 15:36:18
I've got a comfrey butt and a grass cutting butt on my lotties! I did have a nettle one in the greenhouse but my father-in-law FORCED me to tip it away!!!
Do you have to dilute the feed then Manics? Didn't know that. Thanks for the hint :)
dilute it to a weak tea colour, depends on how you like your tea, I suppose ;D
For years I used to trudge the fields and moors with my F-in-L collections sheep dumps.
We'd put it in an onion sack when we got home, poured boiling water over it to kill the nasties then put it, bag'an all into an old milk churn and top it up with water and leave it for months. Made my tom's shoot up!