Beginner Gardening: Horse Manure...what plants hate it?, 1 by fsrstarr

fsrstarr wrote:
I have horses and most of the time at least one of them is stalled or in a paddock. I use pine shavings in my stalls, so when I muck out the stalls I take the manure/shavings to the new pile... I like to have two piles going. One is aged, the other is new... usually by the time the old pile is gone the new pile is aged... It ages faster in the sun, but it also helps if you break the "apples" up a bit and mix them in well with the shavings. There is a seed factor to consider, as horses do not digest everything they eat... you can have oats, even weeds come out of a pile of horse manure. Whatever is in the hay they eat can come out in the apples. Back in the old days when I had about 40 horses, I had huge piles of manure that I hauled off to the fields and piled up... Gardener friends would come and get some every fall... I didn't know it then, but I would soon get "bit" and be in need of it myself... lol... I am no expert, but it is a bit too hot if used too soon, it really does need to age. I do have to admit one thing... I grew petunias at the front of my barn in a small bed with just manure... and it was fresh... they thrived in it... here is pic...

Blessings,

Starr