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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

keith bellinger wrote:

> It has been twenty-nine months since we sold the two milk cows and 
> butchered the last calf. They will never be forgotten but springtime 
> always refreshes the memories of what they gave us when I back the truck 
> up to the big pile of compost between barn and coop to replenish the 
> garden. Four half-ton truckloads or more each year give the garden beds 
> two or three inches of topping after I fork and rake. I estimate thirty 
> tons are left and so should last until I turn sixty-six. What will I do 
> for the following forty years?
>
>  
If you sprinkle on some soaked alfalfa pellets before you put the 
topping on, I'm sure you could stretch that manure a lot further.  That 
seems like a lot of manure to apply every year.  There's even a problem 
you can get by overmanuring, small bugs known as symphylans.