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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: richy on August 03, 2011, 14:41

Title: Fresh horse manure
Post by: richy on August 03, 2011, 14:41

Is it ok to dig in some fresh horse manure( about 2 months old) now? It would be where i am going to plant my overwinter onion sets.

Title: Re: Fresh horse manure
Post by: mumofstig on August 03, 2011, 15:17

I wouldn't plant anything near it till spring when it has rotted down a bit.

Title: Re: Fresh horse manure
Post by: Trillium on August 03, 2011, 17:16

I agree, it's still too fresh and is more likely to burn the sets.

Best to let it keep rotting and find a bit of older manure for this task.

Title: Re: Fresh horse manure
Post by: blackisgreen on August 03, 2011, 18:21

water it down to use as a feed then drain of water and use to dig in

Title: Re: Fresh horse manure
Post by: richy on August 03, 2011, 20:37

ok thanks for the replies.

Title: Re: Fresh horse manure
Post by: snowdrops on August 03, 2011, 23:17

Or you could use some in layers in your compost bin to heat it up & speed up the process & then put that in your beds.