4 month old manure

Ziggy used it as a hot bed last year, he stacked it up and as it composts it gives off heat, thereby warming the soil above it, into which he planted for extra early crops.

I did a similar thing a couple of years ago filling a new raised bed with muck, I put a topsoil onto that and planted into it. Now that bed has gorgeous soil.

But everyone does everything differently, try it for yourself on a small patch and make your own conclusions, as clueless says it's all rules of thumb.

Steve...

 

you can make compost/manure tea, with the fresher horse manure

in a 5 gallon bucket, place 1/2kg of horse manure in a womans stockings/tights .... place in the bucket and fill 3/4 full with rainwater

add an aquarium pump with 2 bubbler stones .... add 2 heaped tablespoons of unsulphered organic molasses

let the brew bubble for 48 hours .... dilute 1 part manure tea to 5 parts rainwater and water the plant/shrub around the roots (dont get it on the leaves)

that is a basic brew .... some guys add extras such as seaweed extract etc

 

here is an interesting article on horse manure

http://www.extsoilcrop.colostate.edu/Soils/powerpoint/compost/Composting_Horse_Manure.pdf

 

Thanks clueless 1 I was thinking of putting beetroot spring onions celery tobacco plants:D (legal ones) then when its time in some raised beds outside some sweetcorn & cabbage & maybe some cauli's if I have enough room

 

Urine? Water it down, water it on ... often quoted as a source of Nitrogen. I've been pee-ing on a Bamboo in a half-oak barrel all Winter, when I take the dogs out last thing at night. Both to defrost it! irrigate it, and fertilize it. I'll tell you in the Spring it it has survived!

 

Are not worried about frost bite?

 

Hummmmmmmm very interesting if you can get it to come on the screen "i couldnt"

 

works for me?

 

And me. Maybe PDF is spelt differently En France?

 

Try uploading a new version of Acrobat Moonraker.

 

here is another link that is not in pdf

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...FXrsFS&sig=AHIEtbTiV6Y3H8f_5QsxskwEqZy9tEg92g

 

It was first tested in 1951/52/53 by CHEMIST 5i4LL HAVE TO LOOK UP HIS NAME? but his findings have been continued ever since,

And as i explained its the ammonia that feed the root system, and the bulk of manure that enriches the soil/compost via bacteria "humus",

As ive said a correctly made manure compound area or as some people call it heap, is made of a concrete floor thats made to drain off the liquid from the manure down a slope and into a tank, the liquid is then pumped out of this tank and its diluted with water and this is what feeds the roots,
it really is to anyone growing food or flowers/shrubs "Liquid gold"

the compost heap is a different kind of feed altogether, its a soil enricher and acts a lot slower than a manure liquid feed,

Ask yourself this question! How much ammonia do you get from the compost heap?

 

note the plastic breather pipes on the sides to aid with the decompoition