Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Lulu on January 08, 2012, 17:23
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Hello the lid of my tub of chicken manure pellets has obviously come off during the recent wind and rain and now the poo is all wet. I have 3/4 tub full - what should I do with it?? Will it keep if I don't put it on the garden soon?? I don't want to waste it. :tongue2:
Would it OK to bung on the allotment - I just wonder if you can put too much on?
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Depends what you're growing in the areas you'd spread the poo on.
If possible, spread the poo on some wax paper, poly film, etc so its thin enough to dry. Once dry, you can crack it into small bits and store. Might be stinky for a while in the shed/garage or wherever, but cheaper than replacing the pellets.
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ROFL.
Sorry, I thought it was only me this could happen to.
I can summarise as: yaks. :lol:
Blooming strong stuff. I just wanted to ask around about the usability of my compost I built it into. :lol:
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Not yaks, gobs :D But the sweet smell of success :lol:
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Not yaks, gobs :D But the sweet smell of success :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
So what do you reckon about this compost, where there is a whole potfull of them? :unsure:
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Actually, we could possibly re-name this thread as: Why not to leave your pelleted chicken manure outdoors? ::)
A load of underestimated unpleasentness to be had.
:lol:
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If you seriously have a great whack of wet chicky poo pellets, get hold of a tarp or sheet of poly, and do the same as I suggested to Lulu, except yours will need a bit of peaked tent covering for air and keep it dry. I think spring might be a better time to try it.
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If you seriously have a great whack of wet chicky poo pellets, get hold of a tarp or sheet of poly, and do the same as I suggested to Lulu, except yours will need a bit of peaked tent covering for air and keep it dry. I think spring might be a better time to try it.
I seriously had them, they are in compost now as said. Honest. What do you reckon to use of such compost, that was the question for real and serious. :)
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Okay, now I understand what you were asking. :D That compost will be particularly good for toms, onions and fruit crops. Also for sidedressing lettuces.
I use lots of chicken poo for my toms. True, they get lots of leafy growth, but that's easily limited by keeping leaves picked off below flower buds. You'll also get loads of toms. Last summer, off 15 plants, I got 3 bushels of toms, and still had loads left ripening on the vines. My area probably has more heat units than yours but you should still get a decent crop.
DD uses chicken pellets for his monster onions, so I'll be using more to sidedress mine. And fruit crops adore lots of chicken poo.
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Thanks, that's good.
It looks/feels much more serious than putting a few pellets here and there.
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Am i right in thinking that OP Lulu still has her pellets in bucket rather than in compost? If drying isn't easy, would mixing a handful in a watering can and using it as liquid manure be an option?
I can see it would make an awful lot of liquid manure though...
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Am i right in thinking that OP Lulu still has her pellets in bucket rather than in compost? If drying isn't easy, would mixing a handful in a watering can and using it as liquid manure be an option?
I can see it would make an awful lot of liquid manure though...
How about tipping the whole lot into a full water butt and using as a liquid feed?
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That happened to me with a big tub of BFB which had a cracked lid. I gave up on it and chucked it because it was growing penicillin :)
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Guys, Trillium quite well grasped the situation in her first answer. I can't imagine much else to be done with it, if Lulu wants to use it through a long period of time. If it's wet, there are no pellets any more. You can smear it about. If it dries out, you can't do anything with it, it's a hard block.
Yes, Shoccky, I just forgot, when the skip was around... :lol:
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Its all in the bucket still and the thought of scooping it out and laying it out to dry ----- well, can you get gas masks on ebay??? yucksy :wacko:. I do sometimes use it as a liquid feed but there really is too much. However, just spotted the reply about fruit - could I give it to my raspberries and I know the blueberries like it? I have quite a big raspberry bed (planted 21 canes at the beginning and they all took :) )
Never thought about it drying in a block - maybe I should keep in damp until a decision has been made or its going to be the biggest lump of **** I've ever seen.
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Blueberries will love a dash of chicken poo, just don't overdo it with them. Raspberries are greedy beggars and will take all you give them.
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You could add it to your compost heap little by little through the Summer. I am sure it would make a great accellerator.
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Poo news - it wasn't all wet - just a couple of inches at the top but some water had got down to the bottom. So today I have been muck spreading in my greenhouse - I've got the wet stuff out on the side to dry out and the dry stuff in trays waiting for the bucket & lid etc to dry. The lumpy stuff will go on the raspberries and the nice stuff will be used as normal.
It was a smelly job but not so bad as I've done in the greenhouse with the door open. :ohmy:
There is no-one else I can talk to about Chicken poo except you lot :D thanks
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(holding nose) You're welcome, Lulu :D