This year I lost my usual supply of horse manure. My Grandson's partner Jodie has been looking after horses for a friend. Her Dad (jokingly) asked "Do you want any horse manure?" Do I? Yes please!! Yesterday he put 4 bags of lovely poo in the back of my car, I declined his offer to empty the tractor bucket full of manure straight in to the back of the car. Now going to pick up quantity each week when I visit Jodie's Nan. My runner beans are rubbish this year so looking forward to a better crop next year.
We must be the only people who get excited about poo! :D
We get deliveries from a donkey sanctuary and it's so exciting when I see their van drive in.
I am a manure freak too ;D
When our daughter got her plot we went to have a look. One of the plot holders had a load of manure in his bay. Our eyes lit up when we saw it. It looked more like compost than manure. Beautiful stuff. I think it was at that point he realised that these were serious people about the allotment. They had had so many part timers who left after a few short weeks.
Hopefully I will have a nice little stack ready for next years planting. Elsa my King Charles did look a bit surprised when I made her sit on the back seat instead of the rear area of the estate car!!
We are still having contamination problems so I am having to use a new source.
I have one trench of beans doing very well on leaves. I scrapped them up in the autumn and put them in a darek for several months and then dug them in partially rotted. By the time I put in the beans in May it had broken down quite well and the beans seem to be loving it, particularly good beans.
I was so impressed at the amount of bio matter around Squash64s site.
I was watching a series about the Victorian Kitchen garden and they used mammoth amounts of the stuff.
Quote from: Digeroo on August 20, 2010, 14:22:44
I was so impressed at the amount of bio matter around Squash64s site.
I suppose we are lucky that we get free deliveries of manure with bedding, grass cuttings and leaves. People can help themselves to as much as they want.
And judging by the abundance of the plants growing they want a lot of it.
We have the opportunity to gather up leaves from woodland off of a nearby footpath. Are there any restrictions or can I just help myself?
Digeroo - what is a darek?
Jodie's parents have a 2 acre grassland area which to my knowledge has never been sprayed with chemicals over the past 5 years, they just mow the area with a sit on mower. So hopefully the manure is god "clean" stuff. They also have free range chickens and I have the benefit of a weekly supply of lovely eggs.