unrotted manure

Posted by H Ryder on November 10, 2005, 4:46 am

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How do you turn fresh horse manure into something that can go on the garden?
How long does it take? Thanks,

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

Posted by Paul D.Smith on November 10, 2005, 5:17 am

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I've been sticking mine in the compost bin, mixed with the regular kitchen
waste. It takes about a year to rot down cold, faster if you can get the
heap hot (I've never managed it). However my compost heap has been "seeded"
from my wormery and those little devils are doing one hell of a job. So
much so that if they survive the winter in the compost heap, I'm
contemplating ditching the wormery altogether.

Paul DS.

> How do you turn fresh horse manure into something that can go on the

garden?

> How long does it take? Thanks,

> --

> Hayley

> (gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

Posted by Mike Lyle on November 10, 2005, 8:03 am

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[.thread the rearranged have I :Yoda]
Paul D.Smith wrote:

>> How do you turn fresh horse manure into something that can go on

the

>> garden? How long does it take? Thanks,

> I've been sticking mine in the compost bin, mixed with the regular

> kitchen waste. It takes about a year to rot down cold, faster if

you

> can get the heap hot (I've never managed it). However my compost

> heap has been "seeded" from my wormery and those little devils are

> doing one hell of a job. So much so that if they survive the

winter

> in the compost heap, I'm contemplating ditching the wormery

> altogether.

There's a bit of a contradiction between worm-working and "classical"
composting. I've just visited friends who didn't seem to have grasped
this. At the hot stage, a compost heap is going to be an unhealthy
place for worms. A cold heap is all right, and it's the only
realistic thing for many gardeners; but it breaks the stuff down
rather differently -- more like the slow formation of leaf-mould. I
suppose a cold heap actually _is_ a wormery, so there's little point
in having both.

I must have said here before that I think wormeries, as such, are an
interesting hobby for a while but otherwise pretty pointless.

--
Mike.

Posted by Sla#s on November 10, 2005, 8:10 am

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<SNIP>

>...I

> suppose a cold heap actually _is_ a wormery, so there's little point

> in having both.

> I must have said here before that I think wormeries, as such, are an

> interesting hobby for a while but otherwise pretty pointless.

Surely one can put more in a wormery - cooked food etc. that one would not
want to put on the heap?

Slatts

Posted by Nick Maclaren on November 10, 2005, 8:22 am

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|> <SNIP>
|> >...I
|> > suppose a cold heap actually _is_ a wormery, so there's little point
|> > in having both.
|> >
|> > I must have said here before that I think wormeries, as such, are an
|> > interesting hobby for a while but otherwise pretty pointless.
|>
|> Surely one can put more in a wormery - cooked food etc. that one would not
|> want to put on the heap?

Not at all. One can put anything on a cold heap that one can put
on any other form of composter, and then some. And many of us
do ....

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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