Is my garden soil screwed?! HELP!!

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RowleyUrbnHmstd

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I cleaned out my chicken run today, and when I scraped up the packed down stinky dirt from the ground, I mixed it with fresh topsoil and spread it all over my garden area. I wasn't thinking about whether or not this was the right way to handle that waste filled soil from the run. It contains manure from the whole past year, including fresh stuff. I have 4 girls living (and pooping) in there. We're getting ready to till the garden and plant our seedlings in the next two weeks... is my soil now contaminated or destroyed?! Advice greatly appreciated!
 
I think you did your garden a favor - manure, composted and fresh is fine for your garden. The fresh might burn some of your plantings so make sure it's tilled in to your garden soil. But a rain or a good watering will start to break down the fresh manure quickly. I think you're garden is going to be just fine!!!
 
If you're tilling it in, it will be fine. In the mean time, I suggest that you turn your run into a deep litter. When ever you clean the coop, toss that bedding into the run. Add old leaves, grass clippings, wood chips, garden debris: basically any yard waste that might go into a compost pile. The goal is to get about 6" of material in that run. The chickens and your soil, and next year's garden will all thank you. IMO, bare soil is unhealthy soil. Keeping it covered goes a long way towards managing soil the way it was designed to be managed.
 
RowleyUrbnHmstd said:
I cleaned out my chicken run today, and when I scraped up the packed down stinky dirt from the ground, I mixed it with fresh topsoil and spread it all over my garden area. I wasn't thinking about whether or not this was the right way to handle that waste filled soil from the run. It contains manure from the whole past year, including fresh stuff. I have 4 girls living (and pooping) in there. We're getting ready to till the garden and plant our seedlings in the next two weeks... is my soil now contaminated or destroyed?! Advice greatly appreciated!
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I got a pickup load of manure once from my uncle. I double dug it in and spread the rest around the perimeter of the garden. It worked great and the smell kept the rabbits out. My okra grew so high we had to pull them down to harvest they were so tall.
 

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