Mulch & Manure

Composting horse manure and adding hay as a mulch in garden.

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• composting
• organic
• gardening
• permaculture
• urban
• sustainability
• gaia

[ElShadaiLives]

Lived in Taiwan for a while. They have been using humanure for centuries. Biggest tangerines i have ever seen. size of grapefruits. You can get Masanobu Fukuoka's book Natural Farming on line for free. Good job! I can't get my 'BLACK THUMB' to grow! :^( Shalom.

[UrbanHomesteadFL]

@ElShadaiLives. In my thinking.. Humanure is something that cannot continue to be a squandered resource if humans plan on living on this planet much longer. Thanks for the tip on the Fukuoka book.. i love his perspective

[QuickGardens]

I have a rancher who offered to dump a large load of manure into my yard. I am looking for a good source of compost and raised bed mix for my give a garden project. I don't know enough about how long manure needs to cook before it's really usable. I think there is a huge market here for agood compost/potting mix. Do you know of any additional sources of rabbit waste or rice hulls in the area?

[UrbanHomesteadFL]

@QuickGardens I dont know sources other than horse manure and city tree trimmings mulch. Woody tree trimmings breakdown great, are free.. just take alittle longer to compost. Plus they dont have the worries linked to manure. Call a local pet store (that has rabbits) and see if they will give you the phone number of the rabbit breeder they use. There is a listing on all Florida rabbit breeders online somewhere but i haven't saved the link. Google it. Tree trimmers are great too.

[ElShadaiLives]

@UrbanHomesteadFL Your welcome.

As soon as I think of her name I'll let you know of another that was friends of his. Great lady.

[rosuabsc]

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[UrbanHomesteadFL]

Thanks. I have a much larger 4 bin system now. I do prefer to compost the horse manure for a few months before using it on vegetables. I do use it uncomposted, under mulch around fruit trees. The plus side to composting it seems to be tha then i know its worm safe.. because i see worms in the composted manure. I add our chicken manure & thier bedding to the food scrape/garden waste/leaf mold pile

[VivianRinSC]

You have to wait so many days after the horses have been wormed depending on what they use before it's safe to use the manure in the garden regardless of composting or not.

[VivianRinSC]

Horse manure can be used without composting. The down side of not composting is that you many end up more seeds in your garden. If you don't get your compost to heat up enough, you'll end up with seeds that way, too. Chicken manure has to be composted otherwise it will burn your plants (too high in nitrogen, I think). Not sure on cow manure. Also on horse manure, check with the people where you get yours because you shouldn't use the manure after the horses have been wormed.

[rotoclip]

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