Quail Poo Question

[Boyd]

How old/how long do you need to wait to use quail poo in a garden without burning the plants? Or would you be better putting worm beds under the birds 1st and re homing the vermicompost?

 

[wilds of pa]

You could spread it down the inside row where no plants are and allow the rain to slowly wash it down to the roots, been doing that for years with sweet corn and boy does it grow nicely as well with pumpkins. this also helps with keeping weeds down as anything directly under the poo gets killed slowly but surely by the burn..

~Wilds~

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

We do the same thing here, side dress the plants with fresh poo and litter. Keep it about a foot away from the base of the plants. The one plant it doesn't work to good on is tomatoes, last year ours got about 7 feet high but had few fruits. They put all the plant energy into growing it seemed.

Steve in NC

 

[monarc23]

INTERESTING info! natural weed killerrrrr! LOL!

 

[Boyd]

Weed killer, hadn't thought of that, although it will make my teens squeemish about weed pulling, thats for sure

 

[monarc23]

Quote:
ooh just tell them to "GROW UP!" (they are...after all

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[Boyd]

and they say

 

[Bettacreek]

If you want to age it, it's 6 months for poultry manure. The wormbed sounds like a good idea (if it won't burn them as well, gotta watch the pH with worms), and the other idea presented sounds great as well.