Hot tip

I now have full access to this steaming hot horse muck heap.. I managed to get six bags full into my van and tomorrow my Roses will be the recipients of a warming nutritious blanket:thmb:and a welcome addition to my own revamped compost bins.

 

I suggest making sure that aminopyralid herbicde has not been used on the pastures the animals grazed on, nor on those from which any hay/fodder was produced / purchased from. (A search here for "aminopyralid" will give the background, if you are not familiar with the problem)

 

" you may know the people it is coming from"

Sadly still a risk that they have unsuspectingly bought in fodder, or grazed on "a friend's pasture" ... the requirement to notify recipients when aminopyralid has been used on pasture has been ignored, and that is what has lead to the problem, reretably.

 

Loofah,the roses have been dressed with well rotted muck from another heap and some of what you see is now well mixed with my garden waste in my own bins.:wink:

Thanks for the heads up kristen:thmb: I called my boss and he said not worry. His wife owns the Horses and assures me that she only feeds him chemicals and G M Food's:D ...And all bedding and hay is cropped of his own land and he doesn't allow such chemicals.

Certainly worth knowing the dangers though,thanks.

 

"His wife owns the Horses and assures me that she only feeds him chemicals and G M Food's"

Excellent! Lucky you ... I look forward to seeing pictures of your monstrous Roses next Summer :D

 

Oh you lucky fella Nick!

Isn't it amazing how us gardeners can get excited over what most 'normal' folk would just see as a heap of s...!

When I was still in my pram and living in Epsom, my grandfather used to push me up to the downs along a road used by the horses. He hung an old shopping bag on the back of the pram and took the fireside shovel with him. Dad grew great veg and I grew curly hair:lollol:

 

Dad grew great veg and I grew curly hair:lollol: .........
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Love it!:rotfl:

 

Living out here in the sticks there are many farms, stables etc etc that just cant get rid of it. I have an endless supply, for free. In most cases the pile at one end is two to three years old, well rotted and ready to use. I get a mix of old and new, old to use and new to mix in the compost bin as Pal has already done.

Steve...

 

When I tipped farm manure in the compost bins some of the allotment guys were laughing at me but came the following year they werent laughing, i was getting some good compost mix from the bins and now they are all at it.:lollol::hehe:

 

Well done for sharing your ideas Fancy..and well done to those gardeners prepared to listen and try them...Adding it to mine was an experiment and had I seen your suggestion I might have tried it before:gnthb:
BTW...the bins seem warm in the middle despite the frozen crust:D

 

I do voluntary work at my local Riding Centre, yet never think to ask for some for my Roses. Even though they are small at present, I must remember to ask next week for some.