Horse manure

[lorna]

This year I lost my usual supply of horse manure. My Grandson's partner Jodie has been looking after horses for a friend. Her Dad (jokingly) asked "Do you want any horse manure?" Do I? Yes please!! Yesterday he put 4 bags of lovely poo in the back of my car,  I declined his offer to empty the tractor bucket full of manure straight in to the back of the car. Now going to pick up quantity each week when I visit Jodie's Nan. My runner beans are rubbish this year so looking forward to a better crop next year.

[lorna]

[Squash64]

We must be the only people who get excited about poo! :D
We get deliveries from a donkey sanctuary and it's so exciting when I see their van drive in. 

[shirlton]

I am a manure freak too ;D

[grannyjanny]

When our daughter got her plot we went to have a look. One of the plot holders had a load of manure in his bay. Our eyes lit up when we saw it. It looked more like compost than manure. Beautiful stuff. I think it was at that point he realised that these were serious people about the allotment. They had had so many part timers who left after a few short weeks.

[lorna]

Hopefully I will have a nice little stack ready for next years planting. Elsa my King Charles did look a bit surprised when I made her sit on the back seat instead of the rear area of the estate car!!

[Digeroo]

We are still having contamination problems so I am having to use a new source. 

I have one trench of beans doing very well on leaves.  I scrapped them up in the autumn and put them in a darek for several months and then dug them in partially rotted.  By the time I put in the beans in May it had broken down quite well and the beans seem to be loving it, particularly good beans.

I was so impressed at the amount of bio matter around Squash64s site.   

I was watching a series about the Victorian Kitchen garden and they used mammoth amounts of the stuff.

[Squash64]

I was so impressed at the amount of bio matter around Squash64s site.   

I suppose we are lucky that we get free deliveries of manure with bedding, grass cuttings and leaves.  People can help themselves to as much as they want.

[Digeroo]

And judging by the abundance of the plants growing they want a lot of it.

[bluecar]

We have the opportunity to gather up leaves from woodland off of a nearby footpath. Are there any restrictions or can I just help myself?

Digeroo - what is a darek?

[lorna]

Jodie's parents have a 2 acre grassland area which to my knowledge has never been sprayed with chemicals over the past 5 years, they just mow the area with a sit on mower. So hopefully the manure is god "clean" stuff. They also have free range chickens and I have the benefit of a weekly supply of lovely eggs.