sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts
Posted - Apr 29 2010 : 10:05:02 AM
we use all the stuff that is waste here. alfalfa pellets feathers poop hay scratch feed that spills molasses epsom salts worms. i make a soup of fish fert and bacteria for summer in a big water trough. stinks works amazing. i dilute and apply to dirt not plant. i use organic bone meal and de also whay do you girls do???sherrye happy gardens
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts
Posted - Apr 29 2010 : 3:52:08 PM
i love my chicken poop. i use many ways. sometimes i soak a bucket full of water with the poop and let it make poop tea. then i dilute it even more. i have to be some what analytical here. we have maybe 60 days no frost. its all basalt lava rock and sand here in the high desert. we are at the foot of the cascades.they are volcanoes. they have burped since we have been here. that was a trip. no weather- no good soil. when we fertilize and water it washes right into the center of the earth. lol our farmgirl in alsaka knows the challenge. i have HUGE pieces of plastic to pull over garden in summer freeze. so i need well fed strong plants.hence all the goodies i add to compost pile and my liquid fert.happy gardens. sherrye
Sherrye, I just take my rake out to the goat barn or where the old hay was where the chickens like to scratch around and rake up all that good stuff. I make my rows and throw a handfull in each hole. Or I'll til it in with the tiller. I am gradually getting the red clay soil turning a nice brown. Hopefully soon it will be nice rich black soil. But anywhere the goats and chickens have been I'll rake up wheelbarrows full and use that all over. I have not bought man-made fertilizer in years.
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts
Posted - Apr 29 2010 : 4:58:22 PM
kris i was wondering if goat poop is hot. you know they say you can take rabbit poo and put it right on and not hot or weedy. is that the way with goat poop? thought you might know. thanks sherrye
We use horse poo and rabbit poo, old hay, table scraps composted out some, all natural gardens alive fertilizer, and cover crops if I remember to plant them. I usually forget them though! Oh yeah, I add superthrive every couple of waterings.
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Sherrye, goat is like rabbit I believe. You can use it straight on the plant. My chickens are great shredders though. They love the goat poo because of the grain still in it. So it's pretty much composted for me by the time I rake it up.
what do you use for fertilizer????
Posted - Apr 29 2010 : 10:05:02 AM
