Poo in the garden - WOW

[kudzu vine]

I throw straw under my roost. The house has a concrete slab. So once a week or so, I rake the wet poo/straw to the side and add new straw. When dry, I gather up and put in feed bags for my garden. Since straw/hay is hard to decompose, this year I've spread straw/poo all around my plants. Wow - everything is taking off, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, etc. and the straw keeps the weeds down. I'll be replenishing around each plant as the rain dissolves. No more composting for me as long as my garden thrives doing it this way.

Janet from Mississippi

 

[gertiie]

This is awesome I am glad you posted this ! I am excited to see how my garden and flower beds do with this new fertilizer I will be growing !

 

[Gardengirl 2011]

I also work the chicken yard stuff into my veggie/flower beds. Over time I'll have something better than good ol Florida sand.

 

[chseeads]

I hadn't put out a garden for several years, but was going to this year, so I had been spreading what I cleaned out of the chicken house on the area I was going to put the garden.

Well, it ends up, I'm gonna skip the garden this year again due to hindrance of not having it plowed in a timely manner and all the rain we had, but now also the need for a bunch of other different projects around here that are going to require my time, but that aside, the grass where I spread all that poo is outrageously green, lush, and tall. lol

The difference in looking at the whole grassy area, where a little bit of hay has been cut the last few years, is striking. You can see exactly where the poo got spread. Everything grew like crazy. It's the greenest grass on the whole place. lol

It's some good stuff for sure.

 

[Dingo]

You wont need to water or weed as much either as the bulk of the material(straw) is basically mulch. Oh the power of poultry poo, and a little mulch.

 

[Yetti]

I have been putting the used pine shavings and poo on my asparagus plants. they are still just getting past the frost stages. I have about 3 shoots up out of 50+, we'll see how well it works.

 

[llrumsey]

we use all of our poo from the chickens, goats, burro, llama and rabbits in ours. rabbit doesnt burn the plant so it can be put on all through the summer. We like to put the other on in the spring till it in and let it set for a short time before planting. Really makes a big difference.

 

[speckledhen]

Just remember if it hasn't been aged over time, it will have super high nitrogen content and the green stalks/stems will shoot up but you may get little fruit on the plants. They'll look awesome, but that's all you may get on some, big green plants with no tomatoes (or whatever vegetable they are)

 

[Fred's Hens]

Love chicken litter on our organic market gardens. A warning however. Be careful with fresh manure and ground plants such as lettuce, carrots, radishes, etc.
Just a little thing called e-coli and its buddy, salmonella. To be safe, and I have to be safe to sell commercially, I cease all manure applications 30 days before planting.

 

[drdoolittle]

How long should it be aged before putting it on the garden?