Manure can be an easy and effective soil amendment, but there are some concerns to be aware of. Organic manure can improve soil structure and fertility and are often free. Gardener Scott discusses the benefits and problems with animal manures in the garden and shows how to use some manures in unique ways. (Video #265)
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21 Comments
"Hello, let's get it right out…" is the best way to start off a video about manure! Well done!
Hi Scott, i finally received my compost cow manure from a local garden club. How do i use it, should i spread it on top of my vegetable bed even when some of the seeds have not germinate yet? thank you
Thank you for your answer I have a lot of pigeon manure
Thanks for talking about alpaca manure!! I raise alpacas so have a large quantity of alpaca manure. It's great stuff. A few years ago, I filled my new raised beds with nothing but composted alpaca manure because I was too cheap to buy soil and peat moss to mix in with it and grew my veggies directly in it. The veggies took right off and took over my yard. My friends and family couldn't believe the growth and productivity! After the initial filling of the beds, I've been top dressing the beds with the composted alpaca manure every year. A shovelful of uncomposted alpaca manure right from their backsides to put under shrubs and trees that aren't food crops also works like a charm for them too.
Animal manure is not safe any more. Some farmers and many golf courses use some very harmful herbicides (much stronger than Roundup) to kill weeds to grow grass, wheat, and other grains. These herbicides will kill all board leaf vegetables, especially tomatoes. Not only that. If you have these chemicals in an area, that area cannot grow any tomatoes for 5 years. Horses and cows eat grass, hay, straw,… Their manure may carry these chemicals. Chicken manure is relatively safer. But who knows what they use to grow grains.
After watching your great video, I find out how to use chicken manure to feed my worm for casting.
There is a big horse farm down the road but I'm always concerned that the horses may be on meds of some sort. Also not sure if the hay and straw has been treated with herbicides. Do you think these are big concerns?
Really great stuff Gardener Scott. Thanks!
Would using 9 month old chicken manure be ok to top dress my fruit trees? I have a lot and can put on a heavy dressing
A new standard of 170 degrees sustained is needed to kill Toxoplasmosis. There is no real guidance on timing & turnigs since composting cat poop is never advised.
Is deer manure good?
When adding the worm castings in the greenstalk, what about adding a little at a time through the watering system? Then it would get diluted, and sent to all the layers automatically. Just a thought.
Love your videos thank you
Excellent video aid for my food garden. Thanks Gardener Scott
Just this past year I got horse from a local place I get my supplies and it's been cooking for about 5 months now and I attend to let do for another 6 months. I also use alfalfa pellets if I need it.
I got worm bins but not ready yet. It's all a process. Thank you for the great information. God bless.
If you are concerned about Grazon, etc., weed killers in manure, check to see if the hay being fed is a mix (say, orchard grass and clover / or alfalfa). If it is, it cannot have been treated with herbicide since that would have killed the broad leaved plants – the weeds and clovers, as well as any alfalfa in it. I would not use manure from animals fed straight grass hay such as orchard, rye, or teff, or grain hay nowadays. I buy in 2000 bales of mixed hay and alfalfa each year to feed my goats and horses and no straight grass hay for this reason. I want to see weeds in the grass before I feed it. It also provides a more varied diet for the animals.
Yay!! I found my alpaca manure video! Thanks for sharing!! Do you need any more for this year?
I love Rabbit manure because it's a cold manure so you don't technically need to compost it I also occasionally use Chinchilla manure and in the past I've also used Guinea Pig manure.
Aren't Chickens omnivores?
Makes me think. If it passed to manure. How about the meat we eat? Because everything comes from their food etc..
Not gonna call it click bate, but here I am because of the title alone.