Liquid manure

Does anyone make liquid manure from cow, horse or sheep manure. If so how do you make it and what plants do you use it on.
Which is the best manure to use.

islayhawk

 

I make Alpaca pooh liquid manure! Gurt big blue plastic bin, onion sack filled with alpaca pooh and a gallows arrangement to suspend the bag in the bin and give it a jolly good dunking every so often. I 3/4 fill the watering can then top up with the 'liquid'. I let the seedlings sit in it for half an hour. Later when the plants are established I'll dilute it 20 - 1 and spray it over the foliage. Cheers, Tony.

 

I brew 5 gallon buckets of Actively Aerated Compost Tea but also add bat guano (bat manure) .... a bit different than normal compost tea, as you add air to it with an aquarium airpunp and heater

I have read that some people brew their compost tea using manure as the main ingredient instead of worm humus ....

the way that you are possibly suggesting is where you place manure in a bucket of water, and let it stand for a couple of weeks? .... only bad thing I read about that is the 'tea' can go anaerobic (rot) and be detremental to your plants

you may be better off brewing the Actively Aerated Compost/Manure Tea using an airpump and aquarium heater .... it's the same concept, but just adds air to the brew, and you add stuff like molasses for the beneficial bacteria/fungi to eat and multiply ....

it's easy and cheap (costs £3 to make a good tea that is 'turbocharged' with nutrients) .... The equipment to make it costs under £60

 

Do you think I should look on fleabay for a compressor ? ? ?

Cheers, Tony.

 

a compressor may do the trick .... is that not how they make chicken manure pellets (compress them into pellets?)

 

I've made a liquid manure by soaking a handfull of chicken manure pellets in a pint of water for a few days (they really pong!!) then diluting at about 20 : 1 and water in. Anyone elso tried this?

a-a

 

Yes I did it, only the smell is so obnoxious, it is just about impossible to use
As a new gardener, I did not know what to do with it anyway, so got rid of it into the proposed potato plot

Jack McH