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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: peterjf on September 25, 2010, 13:15

Title: manure deliveries
Post by: peterjf on September 25, 2010, 13:15

lookig for a local(hull)farmer to deliver farmyard manure to newland allotments

our usual farmer has retired and no longer offers the service,

200+ allotment keepers desperate for manure for their plots

anyone got any names and phone numbers, thanks pete

Title: Re: manure deliveries
Post by: potatogrower on September 28, 2010, 10:54

have you tried asking your local council? I did a drive around in my local area and found a stable site and asked him nicely. he said he will put some aside. i was expecting a small pile to fill a few bags but horses do work hard becuase it was one big smoking pile!  :ohmy:  :lol:

see if you have any horse stables locally within a 10 or 15 mile radius. i believe they have to pay to get rid of it due to environmental reasons so they might give it away for free. if you have a few horse stables then ask them all to put it to one side and you all will come down to take it away.

or get a group together and drive around finding them, or google horse stables in <your area> leaving signs in cafe's, news agents or post offices that you will collect manure to ring the phone number.

hope that helps

Title: Re: manure deliveries
Post by: realfood on September 29, 2010, 19:17

Remember to check the manure for aminopyralid contamination using the "bean" test.

Title: Re: manure deliveries
Post by: Jamie Butterworth on September 30, 2010, 11:47

Sorry to sound realy stupid, but whats the bean test?

Title: Re: manure deliveries
Post by: DD. on September 30, 2010, 11:53

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=35194.msg421807#msg421807