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Wroclaw, Poland (51 N, 17 E)

I would like to put some manure to my patch, but I don't know what to give. It would be easy for me to get as big ammount of cattle and horse manure as I want/need.

How much bones/meat should I use and how to use it?

Please write everything about it.

9/17/2003 6:41:29 PM

Tacoma, WA

One can easily use 6" of any manure provided that you work it into the soil this fall. I would not put any meat into the soil. Bone MEAL can be used, but not complete bones.

Stan

9/17/2003 7:14:14 PM

Itzetown City

That´s right,complete bones could irritate the eologists. LOL

9/17/2003 7:34:02 PM

New Brunswick

My pumpkin patch consists completely of horse manure. We piled it on the first time three or four years ago, each year adding more. I dig a hole in this and mix in potting soil and peat moss and set in my young pumpkin plants. The manure is now about 2 feet deep. It was placed directly on unbroken hard packed rocky soil. We add lime and fertilizer. Though I have grown no record contenders, I do have a couple that estimate in the range of 350 to 400 pounds. So horse manure does work.

9/17/2003 9:13:52 PM

Puyallup, WA

Interestingly enough....on my visit to Jim Kuhn's patch last Spring, he told me that "horse manure is better than cow manure"!

9/17/2003 11:03:05 PM

Brillion Wisconsin

Depending on what your patch size is and I assume that we are talking post pumpkin, I would put at least 1,000 pounds for every 300 square ft. I brought in 5 times that amount this spring and my #1 patch is 740 square ft and It really did'nt seem like that much after I tilled It in. I get cow manure, never tried horse. Good luck Dean o

9/17/2003 11:11:48 PM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

Try to get a manure with just thousand weeds seeds per yard, nor with millions.

9/18/2003 12:57:56 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

1458 Whittier got Oxen manure.

9/18/2003 12:58:42 AM

Puyallup, WA

See....I just knew that he had a "secret weapon"! :>)

9/18/2003 1:16:08 AM

Carlos,
Did you get that info directly from Bruce or is it just a rumour?

9/18/2003 6:32:39 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

I wouldn't considerer it as a rumour Martin, as Bruce has been adding that stuff for years.

9/18/2003 8:10:31 AM

Wroclaw, Poland (51 N, 17 E)

What exactly is bone meal? Crushed bones or somethin?

9/18/2003 12:25:17 PM

Nova Scotia

yes pumpkin lover it's just crushed bones from slaughter houses.

9/18/2003 1:26:49 PM

New Brunswick

I used straw this year as a mulch. It sure kept the weeds from the manure at bay. I just moved it aside as the vines grew. The patch was beautiful! Very few weeds with this method.

9/18/2003 11:09:34 PM

Southern WI

Do I have to pick the feathers out of my poultry manure ? What benefit would feathers be ? Keep the patch lite and fluffy ?! Oh, the down would keep the soil warm, right.

9/21/2003 3:39:16 PM