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has anyone tried horse manure pelletts.are they any good?

I haven't used them but if I saw them in the Garden Centre and they were the same price as the chicken pellets, I would give them a go.  Where are you intending to buy them?

Quote from: Ellen K on September 10, 2011, 12:50:47
I haven't used them but if I saw them in the Garden Centre and they were the same price as the chicken pellets, I would give them a go.  Where are you intending to buy them?

plant directetory online garden centre  20 ltr 11.98+5.99 p/p

I think this is just another product for those who have more money than sense and are of the 'Margo Leadbeater' perswasion to gardening.    Best to get it straight from the horses 'mouth'.      Cheers,    Tony.

Quote from: Kleftiwallah on September 10, 2011, 14:40:28

I think this is just another product for those who have more money than sense and are of the 'Margo Leadbeater' perswasion to gardening.    Best to get it straight from the horses 'mouth'.      Cheers,    Tony.

Horses mouth?
:D :D :D

Hey Klefti... dont you mean rear end!! ;D

Honestly, at least some folk TRY and be polite on here, bless! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

A modification to the usual comment on horses, "Usefull at one end, dangerous at the other and uncomfortable in the middle".

As it is now the 'norm' to clear up after your dog, when are the horsey crowd going to do the same, or is it 'beneath them'?     Cheers,    Tony.

I have a free supply from a local stable it worked wonders on my cabbages this year. BTW scooping horse poop would require a small JCB following along although I did hear of one chap who carried a sealed bucket in his car boot to collect the stuff but that could be a load of c**p ;)

My sons GF has a horse and I get ample supply from her stables that she uses... But I seem to use it too quickly as I'm too impatient to wait for it to get old...  ;D

I agree that horse poop should be removed from the road, it does not favours to the tarmac.  The rider would have to dismount and sweep it into a bag or ino the hedge. 

When I was young there were wars over who had the remains from the milkman's horse.  In those days no one was in any doubt which end it came out of. ;D  The horse had a bag of food hung on, why not a bag hung on the other end as well.

My dear mum would have a bucket race with the neighbours to see who could get the horse apples first! They all had lovely roses  :)

I carry a couple of carrier bags- just in case ;D

Quote from: Digeroo on September 11, 2011, 10:44:02
I agree that horse poop should be removed from the road, it does not favours to the tarmac. 

Does no favours to motorcyclists either - a bit like the muck tractors spread across the road

Quote from: Kleftiwallah on September 10, 2011, 19:40:10

A modification to the usual comment on horses, "Usefull at one end, dangerous at the other and uncomfortable in the middle".

As it is now the 'norm' to clear up after your dog, when are the horsey crowd going to do the same, or is it 'beneath them'?     Cheers,    Tony.

Yeah but you are the going to be the first one to volenteer to lean down in the middle of a busy road holding a ton of spookable animal? Personally I wooldn't even ask someone to do this on a cyclepath/bridle way.

I can't see that as being practical, even when the rider is aware that the animal has shat.

Lets not make a mountain out of a pile....  Horses have shat in the road since man first tamed them, and few complained, when they were the only means of transport.
Now that they are a rare sight on the road, suddenly its a problem, probably to the same people who move to the country and complain about the unbearable mooing and baaing noises.

How long do you need to leave horse shat to rot before spreeding it on the garden/veggie patch??  If i had some that was quite fresh would it b ok to dig it in now so it would be ready for next spring??

Quote from: Growing4twins on September 15, 2011, 23:42:09
How long do you need to leave horse shat to rot before spreeding it on the garden/veggie patch??  If i had some that was quite fresh would it b ok to dig it in now so it would be ready for next spring??

If it's field tailings then give it a bean test  and depending on the results it can go straight on. If it fails the bean test it can't go on anywhere you want to grow beans, potatoes or tomatoes next year but it'll be fine for sweetcorn, brassicas, celeriac and cucurbits.

If it's stable manure then it'll want stacking for a year or so, make sure it stays moist.

chrisc

Quote from: chriscross1966 on September 16, 2011, 09:31:34

If it's field tailings then give it a bean test  and depending on the results it can go straight on. If it fails the bean test it can't go on anywhere you want to grow beans, potatoes or tomatoes next year but it'll be fine for sweetcorn, brassicas, celeriac and cucurbits.

If it's stable manure then it'll want stacking for a year or so, make sure it stays moist.

chrisc

OK, daft question but what is a bean test & how do i go about it???  There are some horses just down the road from us & the owner just leaves piles of poo outside the fields so im assuming its not from the stables, i keep meaning to go down & get some but im sure ive read somewhere that you shouldnt use horse poo on ur veggies, or did i just dream that???