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I made the mistake once (in a previous garden) of getting a couple of loads of municipal compost from one of those suburban yard waste dumps.  The stuff must have been half crabgrass seed.  Don't make that mistake, folks.

 

On the horse manure heat business though---horse poop was traditionally considered a 'hot' manure, and that of cattle cold.  Because horse manure heated up quickly it was the manure of choice for manure- fueled hotbeds (coldframes warmed by fermenting manure dug into a pit beneath them).  I have not performed the experiment myself.

 

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI

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From: list@ginda.us

To: North American Fruit Explorers ; breezyhill@myway.com

Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:51 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] burning horse manure

On Jan 31, 2005, at 7:05 PM, breezyhill wrote:

Someone I know is burning an accumulation of horse manure rather than composting it. He has been told that this produces a very rich fertilizer. I am aghast. Surely all of the lovely N and soil conditioning properties are lost. Would there be anything left except potash?

Well, even if it's not as rich as the manure was, I suppose burning has some advantages. It kills bugs and weed seeds, for instance. My father's garden "caught" cutworms from a load of inadequately composted horse manure, and he never was able to get rid of them after that. He was told that horse manure is often inadequately composted, as it's not as rich as cow manure, and doesn't "cook" as hot. That load of manure was probably the single worst thing he ever did to his garden.

Ginda

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