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Well if your getting into gardening your also getting into the verious chemicle and natural growing feeds,
Im going to spend a bit of time passing on my experience of natural feeds /improvements for soil and growing feeds,
Now this is'nt going tobe a few lines long, its a subject that has both history to when some manure's we're used and how they are made and how they arrive ready packed from both animals and birds,
Lets start with the two most available, Cow and horse, Or whats known as hot and cold manure,
Cow or as its termed cold manure comes from the cow in the form of a sloppy wet delivered manure and this passes through the animals one way delivery, ie it's back passage for the sold waste, that's only for the delivery of its waste produce, in this case it's made from its feed that is approx 90% grass "but can be fed during the winter via a mixed feed or dried hay) This is known as a cold manure because once the sloppy manure is delivered "body warm" it start's to reduce in heat and soon becomes cold, It's collected in the cow barns mixed with straw and stored in stacks and then after it's decomposed is used for adding to compost heaps "covered for speed of decomposting due to the heat of the heap and the decaying , it's also used as a soil improver by the farmer by spreading the composted heap over the open ground,
The larger farms have a grid method of collecting the liquid drained from this wet manure pre the straw collected slop, this collected wet mix of urine and waste food is stored under ground and later used to spray the land, So no waste here,
Horse/donkey,
Also known as hot manure are again the waste product of the animals food,
The reason its known as hot manure is due to the delivery and congesion system, the horse /donkey differ in the way their digestion system work, a bit like human these two animals tend to deliver a more soldid state of waste and as the horse/donkey deliver this plum shaped manure its form tends to keep the heat in the manure longer than the cow, Hence you'll offten read instructions to spread fresh horse manure around the rose and not up to the stem, its because the horse digestive system is different and produces a more solid packed / hotter type. Horse manure is richer than cow, its ideal for making compost and used just by it's self will improve soil,
Sheep again are grass eaters and again sheep manure is a solid form of delivered product and is good for the making of compost and adding as delivered to soil,
Its not as rich as horse but still worth usage,
Pig, Now we differ from the Pig's eating habbits, Pigs will dig deep to eat roots and also the top growth of grass they'll eat a big cross variety of foods and meal,
Pig manure can produce a lot of weeds when used as a soil improver, this is due to the pigs digestive system not fully breaking down its eaten food and also the cross section of feeds from veg to meat, the delivered waste produce can have solids but also slop? Added to the compost heap it will breakdown,
The birds,
Now we really do see a different delivery system here, Birds only have one delivery system ie one tube that both urine and waste food come through,
So the bird worlds manure is normly slop and rich in lime, Because the way the delivered bird manure stiffens to a crust like texture it can once dried be collected and added to compost in well spread and mixed portions, "not to much"
A very good fertilizer called guano is made 100% From bird droppings and if added as a slow acting feed (very little needed) is a well tried and tested fertilizer,
Well i think this will do for now and i hope for our new to gardening folk, this will give you some ideas as to manure useage and help you produce good healthy
products,
Remember we also have seaweed/comphrey plant / common nettle plants etc all have a place in the making of liquid feeds and aiding compost,
Tip, Good home made compost really is the key to good growing "But" If your growing indoors ie greenhouse etc a tip worth thinking about ref compost is this,
Home grown compost "made" outside full of humus, ie worm defication (shit) and other insects, all living under bug ideal conditions will multify no end if they end up in your greenhouse,
When you read about sowing seeds or planting plants or potting on and they say use such and such compost, they're talking about using sealed shop bought bags of compost, this compost has been sterilized and heat treated via packed and sealed, so all bugs etc are well dead and the chance of introducing more bugs etc are reduced?
Good gardening to you all
Well if your getting into gardening your also getting into the verious chemicle and natural growing feeds,
Im going to spend a bit of time passing on my experience of natural feeds /improvements for soil and growing feeds,
Now this is'nt going tobe a few lines long, its a subject that has both history to when some manure's we're used and how they are made and how they arrive ready packed from both animals and birds,
Lets start with the two most available, Cow and horse, Or whats known as hot and cold manure,
Cow or as its termed cold manure comes from the cow in the form of a sloppy wet delivered manure and this passes through the animals one way delivery, ie it's back passage for the sold waste, that's only for the delivery of its waste produce, in this case it's made from its feed that is approx 90% grass "but can be fed during the winter via a mixed feed or dried hay) This is known as a cold manure because once the sloppy manure is delivered "body warm" it start's to reduce in heat and soon becomes cold, It's collected in the cow barns mixed with straw and stored in stacks and then after it's decomposed is used for adding to compost heaps "covered for speed of decomposting due to the heat of the heap and the decaying , it's also used as a soil improver by the farmer by spreading the composted heap over the open ground,
The larger farms have a grid method of collecting the liquid drained from this wet manure pre the straw collected slop, this collected wet mix of urine and waste food is stored under ground and later used to spray the land, So no waste here,
Horse/donkey,
Also known as hot manure are again the waste product of the animals food,
The reason its known as hot manure is due to the delivery and congesion system, the horse /donkey differ in the way their digestion system work, a bit like human these two animals tend to deliver a more soldid state of waste and as the horse/donkey deliver this plum shaped manure its form tends to keep the heat in the manure longer than the cow, Hence you'll offten read instructions to spread fresh horse manure around the rose and not up to the stem, its because the horse digestive system is different and produces a more solid packed / hotter type. Horse manure is richer than cow, its ideal for making compost and used just by it's self will improve soil,
Sheep again are grass eaters and again sheep manure is a solid form of delivered product and is good for the making of compost and adding as delivered to soil,
Its not as rich as horse but still worth usage,
Pig, Now we differ from the Pig's eating habbits, Pigs will dig deep to eat roots and also the top growth of grass they'll eat a big cross variety of foods and meal,
Pig manure can produce a lot of weeds when used as a soil improver, this is due to the pigs digestive system not fully breaking down its eaten food and also the cross section of feeds from veg to meat, the delivered waste produce can have solids but also slop? Added to the compost heap it will breakdown,
The birds,
Now we really do see a different delivery system here, Birds only have one delivery system ie one tube that both urine and waste food come through,
So the bird worlds manure is normly slop and rich in lime, Because the way the delivered bird manure stiffens to a crust like texture it can once dried be collected and added to compost in well spread and mixed portions, "not to much"
A very good fertilizer called guano is made 100% From bird droppings and if added as a slow acting feed (very little needed) is a well tried and tested fertilizer,
Well i think this will do for now and i hope for our new to gardening folk, this will give you some ideas as to manure useage and help you produce good healthy
products,
Remember we also have seaweed/comphrey plant / common nettle plants etc all have a place in the making of liquid feeds and aiding compost,
Tip, Good home made compost really is the key to good growing "But" If your growing indoors ie greenhouse etc a tip worth thinking about ref compost is this,
Home grown compost "made" outside full of humus, ie worm defication (shit) and other insects, all living under bug ideal conditions will multify no end if they end up in your greenhouse,
When you read about sowing seeds or planting plants or potting on and they say use such and such compost, they're talking about using sealed shop bought bags of compost, this compost has been sterilized and heat treated via packed and sealed, so all bugs etc are well dead and the chance of introducing more bugs etc are reduced?
Good gardening to you all
