Garden Manure ?

[MrZukerman]

I"m planning on putting some manure on my garden site this winter, and have heard different opinions from people as to what type to use, some say horse manure and some say cattle manure, is one better than another? I can get either one when I do this.

 

[ALBALD1]

cow manure is better digested & less likely to sprout weeds. either will do good, but u really need to let it rot down. get it in a big pile & turn the pile over every time it sprouts so the weed seeds end up in the middle. the heat will burn the seeds, so eventually it rots down & turns into compost.

 

[wedge40]

If you get horse manure, make sure it has set for at least 9 months or over the winter. When I was kid, my parents put horse manure on in the spring and nothing grew that year. BUT the following year we had a really good garden.

Wedger

 

[mustangsallysdad]

I actually have better results with horse manure...they are picky eaters, and that results in better composition...spread it on the garden in the fall and till it under in the spring a couple of weeks to a month before planting.

 

[ruralruss]

I"m planning on putting some manure on my garden site this winter, and have heard different opinions from people as to what type to use, some say horse manure and some say cattle manure, is one better than another? I can get either one when I do this.

Get yourself a big bag of dried molasses and spread it around. Work up the garden and and sow Austrian winter peas. Come spring work the peas in. Do this a few years and you won't need much of anything to have a good garden if you do good rotation practices. Corn will always need more nitrogen however, lettuces as well. We buy a spreader truck full of chicken litter every couple of years. We cover it with black plastic for a year. Powerful stuff that. My conventional farmer brother in law could not believe our, as he put it "Atomic Corn".

Russ

 

[easygo]

I use horse manure because I have free and nearly unlimited amount available from a near by horse farm. It works VERY well. I do two things. I add a big heap about 3-4 yards to my compost pile in the Summer and add to that any green stuff, old hay, shredded leaves as the season goes along. I let that compost until next gardening season and spread it out before the Spring tilling. Also in the Fall after all the crops are done I spread about 3-4" of horse manure on the garden and till it in. It is always slightly composted before I get it plus it sits in the ground for about six months. We have had great results considering our top soil is so rocky that I have lost count of the number of tons of rocks I carted out of the 25x90' garden.

edit: On top of all that I rotate crops and cover any exposed dirt with grass clippings or hay (if available) I get the discarded square bales from the above mentioned farm. So all this good stuff is free not counting my effort. I'm a lucky guy.

 

[captaincrab55]

If you get horse manure, make sure it has set for at least 9 months or over the winter. When I was kid, my parents put horse manure on in the spring and nothing grew that year. BUT the following year we had a really good garden.

Wedger

Wedger, Did that horse manure have saw dust in it?? If so it robbed the nitrogen from the soil..

 

[rswyan]

Sheep manure ..... :thumbsup:

 

[Mousefield]

Goat manure. :licking:

 

[Johndeere3720]

we have used chicken, horse, and steer manure. Usually, we just mix it all together and the garden seems to like it. :thumbsup: