Manure

Hi

Can anyone suggest another product other than manure i find it difficult to get hokd of any.

 

Hi, Our local garden centre will deliver bags of manure but it is dearer than collecting bags from stables. A lot of people on GC swear by chicken manure pellets but as they are usually from battery farmed chickens [even if marked organic] I don't use them. If you're not bothered by this then chicken pellets are available at most garden centres.
For online products, try here:
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If you have a big enough garden you can produce comfrey and nettle tea, which is an excellent product. I have 4 guinea pigs who produce a large amount of manure in winter when they are usually in their hutch so this is another option.

 

Hi Golfer. I've just Googled riding centres in West Glamorgan and there's dozens of 'em. I'm sure they'd love you to take away some pony poo for your garden. Mix it with kitchen and garden waste and cardboard and paper,go to your local park and nick some fallen leaves. Where there's a will...

 

Hi

Thanks for the info however i contacted one riding school not to far from me and they told me their manure is mixed with shavings which would be no good because it would take to long to rot down.

Our local garden centres does not sell manure as far as i am aware they sell manure mixed i think with compost have tried this in the past not sure if it is any good???.

Has anyone used chicken pellets and are they any good???

 

Chicken pellets are more a fertilizer, whereas manure, although it contains some plant food, is really a soil improver.
I think the pony poo with the wood chippings are OK, just as long as its old stuff and has had the chance to rot down for a year or two.

Garden compost is probably the best and easiest, but getting enough of it is always a problem.

 

If your council reycycle green waste it is usually composted and sold, try contacting them.

 

Has anyone used Levingtons manure its mixwd with compost i beleive and other stuff???

 

Has anyone used Levingtons manure its mixed with compost and other stuff ???

 

Our council does the green recycle bit don't know if I would trust the compost they come up with as most people put their c rap in the bins, diseased stuff all their pernicious weeds stuff with plant viruses, think i'll give it a miss until proved safe.

 

I would agree with that walnut. Our council doesn`t compost the waste, they send it to be processed into methane.

 

It does actually get very hot as they shred it up and turn it twice daily in order to break the waste down as quick as possible.

Around my way they use nematode worms and alegedly the compost is excelent.

 

David, isn't methane a greenhouse gas.

Sounds very enviromentally unfriendly to me. :D

 

I believe so, but by all accounts, it can also be used to generate electricity.

 

Methane is as bad a greenhouse gas as co2,a peacefully grazing herd of cattle doesn't tend to conjure up visions of global warming,but we could all benefit if cattle produced less methane(farted and belched less), the second-most abundant greenhouse gas on the planet. The world's agricultural livestock account for about 17% of the methane in the atmosphere. Cattle and other ruminant animals produce methane, a by-product of digestion, when organisms in their stomachs called methanogens break down fiber in grasses and grains they eat.

 

I asked about (levingtons manure) in a bag mixed with compost etc has anyone used this product and is it any good???.