From my vague memory of things long since read, I think it was usuallyActually, Doug, the person who first told me about it related watching her grandfather graft apples, tying the graft with cotton string, then slathering straight cow manure on to cover the graft union, and, possilbly the entire scion - the latter part I don't know - guess I need to ask her.
a mixture of cow manure and clay.
Cow manure is a microbial brew mostly
friendly to cows (as well as useful in their digestive processes) and
probably unfriendly to things that attack living plants. Just as humans
foster gut contents friendly to themselves (more or less successfully
depending on their state of health, genetic endowment, food and ambient
microbes).
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu wrote:
[snip]
>
> Fresh, steaming-hot cow manure was used with great
> success, 'back in the day'. I still mean to give it
> a try.
>
> Lucky
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