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- From: Bob Klebba <nicmad!klebba%astroatc.uucp@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Using fresh chicken manure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.002307.28848@nicmad.uucp>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:23:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.184652.24517@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Steve DiPirro,
- dipirro@star.dec.com writes:
- >I got my hands on a little fresh chicken manure...about
- >3/4 of a ton to be exact (I have a large garden), although right
- >now it's a bunch of big, frozen blocks (poopsicles) sitting out
- >by my garage. I've never used fresh chicken manure, and knowing
- >how "hot" it is, I'm a little paranoid about applying it.
-
- I would be paranoid too! I've applied fresh horse manure and fresh cow
- manure directly before and have had problems with its composting in the
- soil. The composting locks up a lot of nitrogen and will stunt plant
- growth. I would not compost the chicken manure in the garden soil. I
- would keep it in smaller piles and turn it every other week to accelerate
- the composting.
-
- Another way to use the unfrozen poopsicles might be as top dressing. You
- won't get rapid composting of the material on the surface of the soil and
- you will lose quite a bit of the nitrogen to evaporation, but at least
- you will be able to get rid of the 3/4 ton more quickly. I used to use
- lake weeds (algae) this way. They were delivered in 10 cu. yd. units and
- would stink tremendously if allowed to compost. I just spread them
- anywhere I could in my garden, the lake weeds dried out and at the end of
- the season I tilled the remains into the soil.
-
- Bob Klebba
- Madison, Wisconsin, USDA zone 4
- Inet: nicmad!klebba%astroatc.uucp@spool.cs.wisc.edu
- "Feed the soil, not the plant"
-