We have a riding school up the road and they take troops of visitors out on
horses along the coast all the time.
I always go out and shovel it up for my compost ... and get quite annoyed
when it's in the road and someone drives over it first!
Keith
> 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!
> --
> Sacha
> http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
> South Devon
> http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
>
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> 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!
> --
> Sacha
> http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
> South Devon
> http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
>