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Jerry Spring
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Jerry Spring
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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gz
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Tavascarow
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T.G
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 11 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Tavascarow wrote: |
gz wrote: |
Horse manure is lower in nitrogen than cow and much lower than chicken. A horses gut is more efficient. However is is still a good nitrogen source |
Now I'm going to disagree with you.
It is much lower in nitrogen, but that is because a horses gut is less efficient than ruminants or poultry not more.
Ruminants have more than one stomach & poultry have a crop to pre grind the food.
Horses have neither, so a proportion of their grazing passes through relatively undigested.
But as you say, fresh horse manure is still a good source of nitrogen.
I dig it in neat under all my cucurbits, peas & beans & spuds.
& I use it as a mulch around my rhubarb, loganberries & grape vines, with no problems. |
Yup, horse are rubbish at digestion the speed of transit means that what goes in comes out pretty much the same, a horse will re-eat their own droppings - cus they're disgusting creatures (it's one of the original reasons poop scooping regularly was encouraged for a stabled horse ),,, no because their is still a lot of goodness in their droppings.
I'd say the rhubarb has dried out the manure around the plant looks very dry, well rotted manure mixed well into the soil will help hold water but fresher manure near the surface will dry out pretty quickly and would draw the water from the surrounding soil into it thus drying out the surrounding ground.
Mix in the manure well with the soil, try not to leave any on the surface and water regularly, try and grow it in amongst something try and keep it a little shaded or the soil as moist as possible without being water logged. |
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Kathleen Perrelle
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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gofarmer
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