Len123;
If they are having luck with the trailer cleanings right on the peonies, good luck.
All the info on peonies says to keep fertilizers and manure away from the plant stems. but it can be used 6 to 8 " away to fertilize the roots.
Just what Ive read. I don't fertilize any of my peonies.
Other than that, I use any kind of manure I can get. I have access to Rabbit, Horse and some chicken manure. I usually till it in very early or in the fall. Keeps the night crawlers happy. They even come up at night so I can collect enough to go fishing LOL. Good veggies good fishin gotta love it.
more horse manure advice, please
aren't those books crazy! they'd make you think everywhere an animal pooed would kill off the vegetation, but that is usually where the greenest grass and plants are.
Yup, that they do, well most of the time anyway. But I do get brown spots in my lawn from the neighbors dog. But after a while. with heavy watering they green up too. I think the manure guess is a little like what to plant under a walnut tree. There are a lot of yeas and nays. I kind of go by what is said about what to fertilize and what not. Not 100% though.
Right now I scored several pickup loads of maple saw dust- ( actually from a stump grinder. This will go in the veggie garden on top of several layers of news paper between the rows. To keep the weeds to a minimum. then in the fall it will get several loads of horse poo on top of that and tilled under with a little nitrogen in addition to the horse poo. as wood chips and saw dust rob the soil of nitrogen.
I think I may even have enough to try raising potatoes in the saw dust. That is a ways off yet with the temps still below the zero mark.
Happy Spring! I spent the last three days spreading year old horse manure all over my beds, borders and our blueberries. I am so excited, and exhausted! We have finally had a few warm days and I can see all my little "friends" popping their heads up out of the soil. I added an ash bucket or two to a wheelbarrow full of poop to put on my asparagus patch. Was I right in doing this? Can I put it on our fern beds? I have not used horse manure before, usually get the compost at the recycling center which is mostly Christmas trees and leaves. Our soil tends to be acidic anyway so do I need to amend these composts so it's not overkill? Thanks!! Man I have a hard time working inside..all I want to do is play in the dirt!
