Don't know where to post...brooder litter ok for my garden?

[ChickieNikki]

I had a big rubbermaid tub full of pine pellets and poo from 8 chicks who were in there poo-ing for 2 weeks. I dragged it outside to dump in the compost, but it rained on it. 3 times. And in between it got baked hot in the super hot sun. Finally, yesterday, I just plopped it right on my garden. Then I read it's too "hot" for directly putting on plants (it was actually temperature hot--really hot, surprisingly hot!) Well, today my watermelons plants doubled in size, my seedlings have popped out bunches of leaves, and it looks like my tomatoes have grown 8 inches overnight! Did I do ok, or is this garden going to die tomorrow from this poo-ey litter? It stinks out there, but I watered this afternoon, and hopefully it won't be so stinky in a few more days...anyone know if I did something right or wrong?

 

[hikerchick]

nothing beats poo on plants.

 

[Mahonri]

KEEP IT WET or it might burn.

 

[Big C]

Use it as a side dressing in your rows if its not composted.
Directly around the roots it could burn.

 

[Davaroo]

Once it has spent some time baking in the sun and airing out, it isnt so "hot."
Like the Man, Mahonri, says keep it damp and fork in some mulch/compost.

 

[ChickieNikki]

Quote:
HAHA! That's EXACTLY what I did--for ONCE I did SOMETHING right in that mess I like to call my garden--THANK YOU!!

 

[chookchick]

I throw pooey litter on my garden all the time without composting it. Unless you have like pure poo, which is hard to get with litter, it will be fine. The carbons in the litter are reacting with the nitrogen in the poo and that is what makes it hot. My motto--compost happens!

 

[g_a_brand]

thats the one thing Im looking forward to with my chickens ,,

, top dressing my soil ( where I live its more like gravel than soil ) I plan to put it on my compost pile and than add it to the garden to enrich my rocky soil , my poor veggie garden did not do good last year.