[dickpiggot]

Hi All.

Just started digging over the allotment ready for my first year of growing, and hopefully eating my own veg.

My neighbour kindly gave me two big tubs of organic chicken manure. Do I only use this on specific plants or are these pellets good with most veg?

I plan to grow Potatoes, Broad beans, sugar snaps, courgettes, butternut. sweetcorn, haricot, onions, garlic?? Spring greens, kale, purple sprouting. Swiss chard, spinach, and various salads, and last but not least SPROUTS!.....phew!! any ideas gratefully welcomed

Dickie

[little sweetpeas]

I posted a similar question and the advice was that it could be spread all over the plot.

[muntjac]

yups          

[frazzy]

i,ve spread rooster over my spud plot after planting but an old chap told me i shouldnt have done that because i,ll get a crust of nitrogen or something and this is bad because  ?  sounds to technicle for me. i,m a chuck em in and hope they grow .

[muntjac]

crust of nitrogen ............. oooooer  well i never had crusts on ant sort but crusty buns lol u get rian to wsh it in and thn when u weed it gets broken up on the surface is it happens at all lolol

[noshed]

Old blokes just make stuff up - don't worry, just humour them.

[sladefungus]

youre growing pretty much everything that im growing too, except replace the sprouts with pak choi!  im also spreading chickenpoo all over the allotment so at least thatll be two of us with failed crops if it goes wrong (which im sure it wont)

[Gwiz]

the only thing you're likely to get is a crust of chicken poo if you use to much.

[ytyynycefn]

Smells a bit rank when it gets wet, too!  I used it quite liberally last year, as I didn't get the plot early enough in the season to prepare the ground properly.  Seemed to work pretty well for me!

[muntjac]

right that another old "womans " tale consigned to the manure pile as ?

[frazzy]

thx guys i,ll carry on spreading me poo  

[loubylou29]

well maybe stick to just the chicken poo eh?

[frazzy]

   

[dickpiggot]

i will be chucking the poo around this weekend

[loubylou29]

I have put my chicken pellets in last weekend, now I am worrried that I have put it in the wrong place, where I want to grow carrots, parsnips, leeks and onions, do I have to abandon growing those things this year? is there any thing I can do to correct my mistake? what will it do? why shouldn't you manure root veg??


Thanks