Manure - Problems in the future.

 I keep on getting loads of manure.
There must be a point where the garden is overloaded and I must have to get
rid of some perfectly good soil? As in volume, The garden looks piled up at
the moment.
Don't get me wrong, I love them (the stable) dropping a load of rotten
horse sh*t  on my drive, FOC now almost. I pay fuel costs for the truck.
Once upon a time I could not get it for love or money, and now it almost
comes through the taps..

Baz

 

Don't worry Baz. It reduces in volume as it rots down and, anyway, the
worst that can happen is that you don't need to use a ladder to clean
the upstairs windows :).

Seriously, my mother added a wad of the stuff to her veg patch every
year for 20+ years and when she died it wasn't any higher than when
she started.

Cheers, Jake
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URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay in between
ploughing through books and catalogues for alternatives
to impatiens.

www.rivendell.org.uk

 
Well then I feel better knowing that.

Thanks
Baz

 
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In the 19th century "French Gardening" required that well over 100
tons of fresh horse manure per acre was used every year, to make "hot
beds" etc.
The cropping was very intensive often getting up to 7 crops a year of
the one piece of ground.
The soil level was hardly raised over the years, but they did have
fantastic soil.

 
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What I should have added was that most of the ground would be double
dug every year so that they had a growing depth of 18 inches or more.
Sometimes ground was even tripple dug.