especially if you have a herd. As such, horse owners should find an efficient manure management system that doesn’t come by easily. Fortunately, advancing technology has made it possible to automate manure removal.
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
Clearing land for new garden space can be truly back-breaking work. Use these tips for how to use the power of sunlight and black plastic to kill weeds instead. The method uses no chemical sprays, is easy to do, and keeps the soil structure intact. Once the plastic has had time to wo...
Up until the late 1800s, people often simply tossed their household garbage into the gutter in cities such as New York, where it was common to see knee-high piles of food waste, broken furniture, horse manure and even dead animals on street corners [source: Oatman-Stanford]. The Problem...
Common techniques used by organic farmers to manage soil quality -- which involves not just the soil itself but also water, weeds, disease and pests -- include the use of animal manure, compost, cover crops, green manures and crop rotation. Compost is organic material used with success in ...
3.Combine your green and brown ingredients. Brown materials – such as fallen leaves and straw – add carbon to your compost while green materials – such as kitchen scraps, horse manure, and grass trimmings – add nitrogen. 4.Keep the compost damp. But not waterlogged as this will kill es...
Was the replacement of horses with cars disrespectful to horses, and the people who were removing horse manure from the streets? Was the replacement of the Ford Model T with faster, safer, more efficient, and easier to use cars disrespectful to Henry Ford? Technology comes and goes, and ...
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...
Common techniques used by organic farmers to manage soil quality -- which involves not just the soil itself but also water, weeds, disease and pests -- include the use of animal manure, compost, cover crops, green manures and crop rotation. Compost is organic material used with success in ...
Weed gently; pumpkins have shallow roots that can be easily damaged. Also, take care not to damage the delicate vines; the quality of the fruit depends on them. Side-dress with aged manure or compost mixed with water. Small vine varieties can be trained to grow up atrellis. Larger varieti...