Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: hubballi on March 29, 2010, 15:33
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I have bought a tub of chicken manure pellets. Do I just sprinkle them (to the required amount on the label) on everything in the veg, salad and flower beds ? I have also got some rotted horse manure in the beds too.
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Not sure on everything as you have the rotted horse manure in as well and that might just add too much nitrogen. I'd put it around hungry feeders like roses and your pea/bean bed. See how things grow and you could add a lesser amount to your brassicas later on. Not to onions, though, as they may grow thick-necked and not store well if you over-feed them.
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I'm in the middle of digging my allotment and have got a bucket of chicken pellets in the garage. Is it too late to incorporate them for this years' growing season; will they "burn" the young seedlings, or can I still use them this year?
I know that they're not meant to be used where onions are to be grown; is there anything else I should avoid them with?
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Lettuce i have found benefit from adding chicken pellets to the soil, I use a couple of hand fulls per sq yard, not too sure if this is right but it works for me.
I would not use any near carrots, parsnips or swede as this will cause the roots to fork. :) :)
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Apart from root vegetables I'd chuck 'em liberally in any other ground as long as you're not going to put anything in it for a couple of weeks (to give them time to break down a bit) A great non - messy option and often available on a bogof at the end of the season...
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There are in a BOGOF in B&Q now and Blood and fish bone is on a 3 for 2!
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Thanks rikknikk - a trip to B&Q this weekend methinks...
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Yeah - thanks for the tip- Sending hubbie to B &Q.
I'm a big fan of chicken poo. I have dissolved in water in the past and used it as liquid feed. Comes with a warning though -- it smells baaaaaaaaaaaaaad. But it stops the spaniel eating it as it seems to be his favourite garden snack.
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if you are using chicken pellets , be aware of local foxes scratting around for the chickens that have left the pellets ,
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And guess what I got for my birthday in mid-March?
Not the sort of thing most people would appreciate but it is just what I asked for when my sister asked for ideas! ;)
Poo :tongue2: It certainly wasn't my favourite aftershave!! :lol:
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my kids aged 30 and 24 bought me 50-00 worth of manure for Christmas ,
but they they didnt help me move it onto the pile ,
better something you want then prs of soxs ect ect,
thanks michaela and peter
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Apart from root vegetables I'd chuck 'em liberally in any other ground as long as you're not going to put anything in it for a couple of weeks (to give them time to break down a bit) A great non - messy option and often available on a bogof at the end of the season...
Does root vegetables include beetroot? doh! ???
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beetroot wont mind a bit of poo nipper. Carrots and parsnips are the root veg that spoil if the soil is too rich. :)
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what about with potatoes, hopefully going to get mine in the ground today, never grown pots before so not sure!?!
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yes you can use 'em with spuds :D
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they stink and attract foxes, I'd avoid like the plague
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so what would you use instead, chiswickian?
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Hi mum
I usually use as much muck as I can lay my hands on - compost etc though , as ever, there's no way I can make enough to satisfy all needs. SO FAR, our soil seems rich enough not to need much in the way of artificial fertiliser and I don't use chemicals. I make comfrey tea each year which truly stinks also but it's not a poo smell. I was a bit embarrassed last year when my plot neighbours complained of the smell on my plot as if I had done a number two on the compost heap. It really was revolting.
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Ah...so you do use stinky stuff, just not chicken stinky :lol: :lol:
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When I prepared my beds about a month or so ago I did put over a sprinkling of Chicken pellets (plot not used in two + years) will this have a detrimental effect on my carrots I did not add any extra when planting but when I marked out my beds I didnt really know what was going where so prepared them all the same with a sprinkling of pellets and FBB
Hindsight wonderful thing :ohmy:
Thanks
Missy
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when i used chicken pellets on my spuds i noticed a major increase in scab
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Missy I wouldn't worry too much. I've a feeling that it's the structure of manure / organic matter which affects the growing shape etc of parsnips and carrots.
I'm sure your crops won't be too affected by the chicken pellets.
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I spread a load of chicken pellets around in early Jan (it's now one of my 'first jobs after Christmas') so that they are well broken down before I plant anything. Seems to work!
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I am almost sad that the use of chicken pellet / manure has become so popular... prices seem to have increased now so many others are wanting to buy it.
Anyone seen any of those BOGOF offers for the large tubs?
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I am almost sad that the use of chicken pellet / manure has become so popular... prices seem to have increased now so many others are wanting to buy it.
Anyone seen any of those BOGOF offers for the large tubs?
Tescos (coventry) are doing a bogof for a 3Kg box of westland chick pellets :)
Two boxes for £7
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That's not bad Sideshoot but a couple of years ago our local garden centre was selling 5kg buckets with 2kg free (7kg) for £7 and it was BOGOF! :(
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I like chicken pellets because they release slowly. I have chickens so the smell isn't a problem but all their poo goes in the compost.
I'm doing an experiment this year using chicken pellets for some toms and fbb for others to see the effect. In the past I've used both together in smaller quantities.
Got a 12k sack of pellets in the Range for £2 last year because it had split and was stinking the place out! 8) :ohmy:
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That's not bad Sideshoot but a couple of years ago our local garden centre was selling 5kg buckets with 2kg free (7kg) for £7 and it was BOGOF! :(
Local Wyvale earlier this year £11.99 for 2 x 10 kg buckets, for Garden Club members only. If you have one nearby, it really is worth signing up.
They often have offers on meals as well that are well worth it and the quality, at our local one at least, is excellent.
But I digress!
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That's not bad Sideshoot but a couple of years ago our local garden centre was selling 5kg buckets with 2kg free (7kg) for £7 and it was BOGOF! :(
Local Wyvale earlier this year £11.99 for 2 x 10 kg buckets, for Garden Club members only. If you have one nearby, it really is worth signing up.
They often have offers on meals as well that are well worth it and the quality, at our local one at least, is excellent.
But I digress!
The next free day I'm off to Wyvale!
Thanks DD. :)
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they stink and attract foxes, I'd avoid like the plague
There is some truth in this - I planted my sweetcorn a couple of weeks ago and used a bulb planter to drill holes to drop the corn in. I had started it off in loo roll tubes. Before I dropped them in and backfilled I popped a few chicken pellets into each hole to get them off to a good start. Sadly Mr Fox has been round digging for those underground chickens he can smell and messing up my sweetcorn.
It wont stop me using chicken pellets- next year I will sort the planting holes and leave them a week of two before finally putting in the corn. Hopefully this will avoid Mr Fox trashing my corn even if he does a bit of digging.
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Tip to reduce winter digging:
Sprinkle several handfuls of chicken manure pellets over the plot.
Go home.
Come back in one weeks time.
Plot dug over. ;)
Well done foxes. :lol: