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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dub dub on November 02, 2014, 21:26

Title: hot bed with manure?
Post by: dub dub on November 02, 2014, 21:26

I remember reading an article about a manure hot bed, but I can't find any reference to it now. Can anybody help me?

Title: Re: hot bed with manure?
Post by: moose on November 03, 2014, 12:37

Chris Beardshaw did one on Beechgrove Garden this year. May be worth checking the fact sheets.

http://www.thebeechgrovegarden.com/

Title: Re: hot bed with manure?
Post by: mumofstig on November 03, 2014, 12:49

this one?
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=117094.msg1359733#msg1359733

Title: Re: hot bed with manure?
Post by: mumofstig on November 03, 2014, 13:05

Beechgrove hotbed video clip here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xrn7y

Title: Re: hot bed with manure?
Post by: dub dub on November 03, 2014, 18:34

Thank you all.

The plan is to cover the manure with straw, (to protect the roots from the manure) then soil, then plant in the soil. I also have some glass to cover the bed with, to trap any heat.