Chicken Pellets & Spuds

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Missy1970

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Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« on: March 20, 2010, 19:58 »
I dug over my spuds beds and added some pellets and FB&B a couple of weeks ago but I had thought of sprinkling a couple more pellets in the bottom of the trench when i plant them out would this be ok if I covered with compost or could they still burn?

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2010, 20:09 »
i put them in, and slug pellets, i dont put compost over them either, i just sprinkle them in the trench.

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2010, 07:56 »
I've had to resort to sprinkling chicken manure pellets over the soil a few weeks before planting to give the foxes on my site a chance to dig around looking for the chickens I've supposedly buried there, then dig it in before considering planting anything.  There's nothing worse than seeing all my hard work destroyed by the foxes as I found out to my peril last year  :mad:
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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2010, 15:34 »
Good thinking, painted lady. Sometimes one has to outfox the fox. BTW, nice to see you again.

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2010, 16:29 »
Have just done the same as painted lady 8)

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2010, 18:27 »
I put my chicken pellets on where my potatoes are going to go and dug them in to the soil.  Today we went down the allotment and next to where I put pellets is a raised bed that we intend to grow carrots, parsnips and spring onions, there where to great big holes dug in the corners. Do you think this may have been foxes.  We have now covered the raised bed in enviromesh and didnt plant seeds just in case.   :unsure:

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2010, 18:31 »
That sound slike foxes to me  :lol: :lol:

We ended up growing our potatoes under green netting last year to stop the little blighters  :ohmy:
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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2010, 18:35 »
Oh no, I think again with spuds, I have brought some blood fish and bone to put at the bottom of the trench and dig in before I plant the tattys, this will encourage them more won`t it.

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2010, 09:33 »
Oh no, I think again with spuds, I have brought some blood fish and bone to put at the bottom of the trench and dig in before I plant the tattys, this will encourage them more won`t it.

... bonemeal & fish, blood & bone are also fox magnets BTW, if not stronger than chicken manure  >:(   but is good for slow release of nutrients over a long growing period

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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2010, 11:17 »
I had to stop using BFB thanks to our local urban foxes (one year I found one of my seed spuds (intact) about 30 feet away; don't know whether it was propelled through the air or the fox carried it there before deciding it wasn't edible after all!)

Not had so much trouble with pelleted chicken manure although I've got a suspicion the foxes might have moved on (famous last words!!!)  ;)
« Last Edit: March 23, 2010, 11:27 by JayG »
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Re: Chicken Pellets & Spuds
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2010, 13:09 »
Off at a tangent the talk about foxes has just reminded me about one of my earlier dogs who used to love to get at the bone meal if I had the top off a tub - the brown moustache on her black face was always a give away
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