Tilled the garden yesterday.

[woodchuckc]

Horse manure is great for the garden (better than cow manure in my experience), but a word of advice - compost it first! Three years ago I put a couple of pickup truck loads of fresh dried manure from a barn into my garden and tilled it in real well. I think every seed that the horses had eaten germinated in my garden! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I have never had morning glories in my garden before, but apparantly horses love them, because I had a solid mass of them in the garden that year and the year after - I couldn't keep them under control. Last year it finally got to where I could keep up with them and prevent them from taking over.

-Chuck

 

[PineRidge]

This past fall I teamed up with a neighbor that has horses and another neighbor that owns a dump truck. The already broken down and composted horse manure was free and the gas for the dump wasn't bad so I had 20 dump truck loads hauled in and dumped on my garden plot (a mountain of sorts). I'm expecting a good year for veggies, what do you all think? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[duber34]

I find that I get fewer weeds growing if I use cow manure over horse manure. I'll do anything to keep my weeding time to a minimum.



Regards,
Duber

 

[DannyD]

20 Dump truck loads, you have one very large garden or one very large pile of stinky stuff.

I would have given alot to have had one dump load for the middle yard last year when it was all tilled up and being replanted. If I did that again, the lovely Ms Holly would plant me in the yard.

 

[Panache]

Read this just before going out to cut the weeds for the first time this year. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[PineRidge]

<font color="blue"> 20 Dump truck loads, you have one very large garden or one very large pile of stinky stuff. </font>

Danny there is really no offensive odor to this manure as it has already broken down.

 

[slydog]

Roadrunner's been down for two days. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Guess I will check on some local places for horse manure. I can't get a truck to my back yard, so I will have to wheel barrow it a load at a time from my trailer.....which at the moment is loaded down with my 6 foot scraper blade, 5 foot boxblade, and pond scoop..... I sure need a storage container on my place in Ark....and about 8 more hours in a day! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif