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Hoping to get my potatoes in this weekend weather permitting i intended using chicken manure to line the trench but i spoke to a farmer yesterday and he said not use it for potatoes because of its high nitrogen content. Fair enough i'll get a couple of sacks of horse poo. What veg can i use the chicken poo on?

I use chicken poo on everything, just because I haven't got anything else!Don't think I'd put it in the trench for potatoes, maybe just mix some in with the soil when you are back-filling. Joe Swift did this on GW- not that everyone would think that is necessarily a good recommendation!!

Any large leaf veg. If manure is in short supply get a bag of organic manure

I heard its best for onions?

Quote from: davyw1 on May 03, 2008, 07:58:48
Any large leaf veg. If manure is in short supply get a bag of organic manure

Does that include cabbages? I've got chickens and they produce muck like there's no tommorrow.

I know its good on onions, beans and peas. Much easier than horse manure too, you just chuck it on. I think its quite acidic though so watch it doesn't burn stuff it touches.

You can use it on all your veg but its best composted first the same as any other manure. Nitrogen is produces bigger foliage.

Sorry, I was talking about pelleted chicken poo, not fresh.

Caroline. I use it on everything and i haven't had a problem. I ue it very sparingly on root crops, as a pick me up for over wintered crops, and also as a mainstay on beans, squash, corn, tom and other heavy feeders with no problems. I think the main things to note are not to be too heavy handed and think of it as a sportsdrink - won't see yuthrough the marathon but good as a pick me up in between.

I put pelleted chicken manure around my potato plants 3 years ago, and i had a great return of potatoes. i was always under the assumptin that if you use nitrogen early on in growing then the you would get good leaves which in turn photosynthatised (cant spell it!) greatly thus in return gave good crops. worked for me, and also works greatly for my toms,  good leaves at beginning seemed to bring me good crops of toms, and potatoes are same family (i think) so hey, it wont kill em (it didn't mine)

Hey, it's all trial and error i say ;-)

Its photosynthesised.  :)

My mate has a Chicken farm, would it be worth getting some manure from him and letting it breakdown for next year?

yeah, cheers for the spelling mickw!  i used to be good at it at school lol!

Yeah, i reckon you should get your chicken poo sorted! i have chooks and i aim to use the muck wherever i can, also have a horse aswel so best of both worlds! woohoo!

I put one row of maris peers with chiken poo the other rows with cow manure i'll let you know. Caroline-Sportsdrink? what do you do dilute it with water?

My father in law has a farm in orkney and did a test with chicken manure. He covered a strip up a field with chicken and the rest with cow silage. The strip grew leafy veg at twice the rate and height of the rest. Quite impressive

I give my spuds and my onions a good sprinkling with them, I also throw a good few handfuls in a bucket and leave for a week and add to the watering can as a feed, don't leave it to long though because it don't alf chuck up.  :o    ;D ;D ;D