"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"Saxman" wrote in message
Springtime wrote:
A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse
manure
(fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into
the garden??

Horse manure contains a lot of grass seed, which is why it is best
left
to rot down, as another poster suggested.

I've been using about 6-8 trailer loads of horse poop per winter and
summer for about the last 3 years. I don't compost the manure just
spread it and top it with mulch

indeed. You can spread it on a fallow garden over winter and it will weather
naturally and wait for the worms to mix it in or you can dig it in and it
will break down over winter. If you want to compost it either throw it in a
compost bin and wait for it to break down slowly or mix it in with grass
clippings and let it cook. If you cook it the poop will reduce to humus
quicker.

rob

A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse manure
(fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into the garden??

SH

Springtime wrote:
A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse
manure (fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into the
garden??
SH

I got some last winter and just dug it in about this time...it breaks down
nicely with the frosts etc and had virtually disappeared by spring

Fresh manure should be left to rot down for several months before digging
in. If you don't you will risk scorching. My carrots and parsnips were a
very peculiar shape - all 'fanged' when I failed to do this.

Good luck,

Keith



"Springtime" wrote in message
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A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse manure
(fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into the
garden??

SH

Springtime wrote:
A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse manure
(fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into the garden??

Horse manure contains a lot of grass seed, which is why it is best left
to rot down, as another poster suggested.

Put it in a bucket, pour water over, leave, feed tomatoes.

"Springtime" wrote in message
A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse
manure
(fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into the
garden??

I don't bother. I use it fresh on top of the beds and then top it
with a mulch. Roses in particular love horse poop.

Horse poop is not a hot manure like hen poo and I find it doesn't need
to be composted.

"Saxman" wrote in message
Springtime wrote:
A friend has very kindly given me a couple of large sacks of horse
manure
(fresh ish).
He seems to want to give me a semi regular supply.
What is the best way to compost this so that it can be dug into
the garden??

Horse manure contains a lot of grass seed, which is why it is best
left
to rot down, as another poster suggested.

I've been using about 6-8 trailer loads of horse poop per winter and
summer for about the last 3 years. I don't compost the manure just
spread it and top it with mulch and even though half the horses are
grain fed and half are grass fed, I'd have to say that weed seed from
the manure hasn't been a problem at all.

Perhaps that is because I always use the manure under mulch and weed
seed needs light to germinate, but weeds have never been a problem.