Favourite Manure

I would put Cow manure firmly at the top of my list,closely followed by the pelleted chicken variety.
What is your preferred soil food?

 

:euw: Artificial :cnfs: what is artificial MANURE?????

 

Some years ago one of the kids I taught kept pigeons and would bring me sacks of fresh pigeon manure. (Much better than an apple for the teacher)
Nowadays I use pelleted chook fertiliser.

 

I use green manure, but no option for that.

 

Sorry Alice please forgive my shortsightedness :o

 

Diluted "fish poo" from my koi pool sump, excellent for our azaleas, rhododendrons and acers and it's free!

 

Surely manure and fertilizer are two different things


Manure adds to the structure of the soil as well as adding nutrients,whereas fertilizer merely adds chemical and mineral elements.

 

.
Whatever type of fertilizer anyone adds to the soil, it adds N,P and K in various proportions as well as certain trace elements.

The worlds population could not be fed using manure, and the organic crew are fooling themselves into thinking otherwise!

And before anyone fired back, I use stable,garden compost and any other fertilizer I buy!

In fact I can have more stable manure than I can use, as the local stables dumps all their manure on our plots spare area. as it would cost them about £90 per load to take to the local tip as it is classified as "industrial" waste, so we get it for free!

:gnthb:

 

Cant get manure so cant vote as such.

But I would go for cow manure given a choice.

 

.

No one so far has mentioned seaweed!

I used to live near the sea and was able to get lots and lots of seaweed that had been washed up to the tide mark.
I collected it and put it on the compost heap where it very quickly rotted down.
Then I moved house, but have been told by an old neighbour it is now illegal to collect it, even though it stinks as it starts to rot.

It was good for the soil structure and even better for top dressing plants, sorry I am not able to get any now!

I'm not sure but this autumn my plot soil has been the best it ever has been for digging, very easily broken down and no large lumps like cannon balls as it usually is!

Whether it is the weather or the amounts of organic matter I have added over the years, but it has been a pleasure to turn it over lately, long may it continue so!

:gnthb:

 

I saw an episode of "Lost Gardens of Heligon" on Blighty a few days ago (probably a repeat from 10 years ago, or more). They drove a tractor and trailer down to the beach and filled it to the brim with seaweed.

I've always assumed it took ages to gather a decent quantity of seaweed, (and that as soon as the water ran out of it a bit it would shrink down to "nothing"),but maybe that's not the case?

(I expect its possible, and probably straightforward, to get a license if it is indeed now illegal)