Posted by Farm1 on January 8, 2007, 5:39 pm
> >
> >The only warning about horse manure is that there is some
suggestiont
> >hat the vermicides that are givent o cope tih worms int he horses
gut
> >could kill garden worms.
> The worms in a horse's gut are not related to earthworms, though I
> suppose a broad-spectrum vermicide could affect a wide range of
> creatures.
When we still had horses, the vermicide we gave them was a broad
spectrum one. I dont' know if it would kill soil worms or not and
have only noticed that I get more worms after using the manure.
However, I have consistently read this as being a warning about using
fresh horse manure (especially sourced from racing stables) but I have
certainly wondered if it's just an old gardener's tale.
I have so often read of the 'need' to pile horse manure but I know
from experience that such isn't the case. I do lots of other thing in
my garden too that would be frowned on by garden purists but they work
so I often wonder about how we end up doing the things that we do.
For example, I've often planted into weed piles and that grows a crop
and I now plant all potatoes in a hay bed and that works too.
Posted by Peter James on January 9, 2007, 3:29 am
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:44:30 +0000, Jack wrote
> A silly question from a person born and raised in a city and only ever
> having veggies from a supermarket, nicely washed and packaged !
>
> Adding horse manure to soil for growing veggies - could you get the
> screaming abdabs from the manure, some deadly disease or nasties of some
> kind? I see some fellow allotment holders adding fairly fresh manure to
> their soil, and I wonder how healthy it is to eat veggies grown in it?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
When I was a small lad, and evacuated to Cardiff during the war, I lived with
my grand-mother. In those days there were many, many horses on the roads,
pulling tradesman's carts mainly. Every time a cart went past, grannie
would shoot out onto the street with a bucket and spade kept for that purpose
and collect the horse manure deposited on the road by the passing horse. The
manure then went straight onto her rhubarb and vegetables. And by god, I
remember her rhubarb tart to this day. It didn't do me any harm, and it was
normal practice in the street where she lived. In fact it used to be quite a
competition to see who could get out there first. Happy days.
Posted by 'Mike' on January 9, 2007, 4:15 am
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:44:30 +0000, Jack wrote
>>
> When I was a small lad, and evacuated to Cardiff during the war, I lived
> with
> my grand-mother. In those days there were many, many horses on the roads,
> pulling tradesman's carts mainly. Every time a cart went past, grannie
> would shoot out onto the street with a bucket and spade kept for that
> purpose
> and collect the horse manure deposited on the road by the passing horse.
> The
> manure then went straight onto her rhubarb and vegetables. And by god, I
> remember her rhubarb tart to this day. It didn't do me any harm, and it
> was
> normal practice in the street where she lived. In fact it used to be
> quite a
> competition to see who could get out there first. Happy days.
:-))
Ah happy Days!!
I was in Kingston on Thames and then in Beer in South Devon. Happened in
both those places as well :-))
Country wide practice I would think.
Mike
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Posted by George.com on January 9, 2007, 11:46 pm
> > On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:44:30 +0000, Jack wrote
> >>
> >
> > When I was a small lad, and evacuated to Cardiff during the war, I lived
> > with
> > my grand-mother. In those days there were many, many horses on the
roads,
> > pulling tradesman's carts mainly. Every time a cart went past, grannie
> > would shoot out onto the street with a bucket and spade kept for that
> > purpose
> > and collect the horse manure deposited on the road by the passing horse.
> > The
> > manure then went straight onto her rhubarb and vegetables. And by god,
I
> > remember her rhubarb tart to this day. It didn't do me any harm, and
it
> > was
> > normal practice in the street where she lived. In fact it used to be
> > quite a
> > competition to see who could get out there first. Happy days.
> >
> :-))
> Ah happy Days!!
> I was in Kingston on Thames and then in Beer in South Devon.
sounds like a good place to be, in beer.
rob
Posted by Sacha on January 9, 2007, 7:09 am
On 9/1/07 08:29, in article
0001HW.C1C902D9005B3963F0284530@news.claranews.com, "Peter James"
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:44:30 +0000, Jack wrote
>
>> A silly question from a person born and raised in a city and only ever
>> having veggies from a supermarket, nicely washed and packaged !
>>
>> Adding horse manure to soil for growing veggies - could you get the
>> screaming abdabs from the manure, some deadly disease or nasties of some
>> kind? I see some fellow allotment holders adding fairly fresh manure to
>> their soil, and I wonder how healthy it is to eat veggies grown in it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>
> When I was a small lad, and evacuated to Cardiff during the war, I lived with
> my grand-mother. In those days there were many, many horses on the roads,
> pulling tradesman's carts mainly. Every time a cart went past, grannie
> would shoot out onto the street with a bucket and spade kept for that purpose
> and collect the horse manure deposited on the road by the passing horse. The
> manure then went straight onto her rhubarb and vegetables. And by god, I
> remember her rhubarb tart to this day. It didn't do me any harm, and it was
> normal practice in the street where she lived. In fact it used to be quite a
> competition to see who could get out there first. Happy days.
>
That definitely used to happen then but equally, I doubt horses were given
whatever medical treatments they get nowadays, which means the concerns of
the OP are still relevant. My grandfather had wonderful roses!
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> >The only warning about horse manure is that there is some