The Country Life: How Does Your Garden Grow? with Horse Manure? Cow Pies?When you have as many animals as I do, you deal with a lot of,well, crap.On a recent Saturday...Radford, Bill
Make the bedding for the worms. You can use well-shredded newspaper, straw, peat moss or a combination of these. Horse manure is also good bedding for a worm compost bin, but make sure the manure is well-aged. Fresh manure gets very hot as it decomposes and can burn the worms. Age ...
There are many concerns for mismanaged horse manure. The good news is that you can put that pile to good use by implementing a composting system on your farm. I have had horses most of my life, but it was not until I first cared for a horse on my small acreage that it dawned on ...
If you have sandy soil,add humus or aged manure, peat moss, or sawdust with some extra nitrogen. Heavy, clay-rich soil can also be added to improve the soil. If you have silty soil,add coarse sand (not beach sand), or gravel and compost, or well-rotted horse manure mixed with fresh...
We get a lot of horse manure (don’t use horse manure in your garden without proper composting) from a friend who uses organic farming practices. We use this to feed the worms. To this we add leaves, kitchen scraps, anything which can be added to your compost pile. We also try to ...
help maintain soil structure, and help maintain the level of organic matter of the soil, all of which keeps soil healthy. Green manure is a type of cover crop grown specifically to add nutrients back into the soil; manure is plowed together with the soil, positively increasing the soil's ...
This is exactly how I created parts of my last two vegetable gardens and two large flower borders. Doing it this way saved me an incredible amount of time and energy! Using black plastic is the main way I recommend clearing land without using herbicides since it’s easy and suitable for ...
There are 2 ways that have worked well for me a raised bed with wooden sides approximately 18inches deep, this was filled with fresh horse manure to the top, walked on to compress it down and the resulting 6inch gap at the top filled with a 50/50 mix of green waste and used grow ...
who says manure areas with a hidden drop off can be particularly dangerous. “That was another scary situation I saw once, and it could have been tragic. Another consideration is to always cover or block-off the ring dragsso a loose horse can’t run over it. Using hard-packed ...
If you are using fresh manure, spread it on in the fall so it can break down over the winter and be safe for spring planting. If you prefer, dried blood, alfalfa, soybean, or cottonseed meals can be substituted. Nitrogen is released quickly from them so it is best to wait until sprin...