It's been soooooo rainy for the past two years, the soil needs plenty of enrichment before this year's plants go into the borders. I've emptied my compost bins into any patches of bare soil and added bonemeal to planting holes for anything and everything, but now it's time for the serious stuff.
Living on the edge of a city, I am fortunate that we are in easy distance of the green fringes of ruraldom and that my contact in the office at school has horses. Productive ones it seems. So I'm off to line the back of my car with nuclear strength protection, to wind the windows down and to go get some poo. Oh, and I must remember my shovel.
Ah, good luck. You're going to compost it yourself, then?
ReplyDeleteAm told it is already mature black gold, but if not will pile it up in a corner until it is fit to put on the garden.
ReplyDeleteHope you weren't too smelly when you got back....lol!
ReplyDeleteReminds me off the time when I was a teenager - my grandfather got a huge lorry load (it seemed huge but probably wasn't) delivered from his brother, a farmer. The whole street was stinking for days as all the neighbours help themselves to the free manure. I was, as you can imagine mortified everytime one of my friends came round!
I do hope it was already well rotted for you!
These things obviously go in families then - my dad used to help on a farm and bring back trailer loads (just for him - too precious for his veg to share!) to dump over the back wall to the garden with similar effect to that which you describe. As we had a pig farm upwind of us, I think the neighbourhood was used to periodic whiffiness though. He still collects bagloads from a nearby horse to this day (and I covet it each time I visit - sad person that I am) but now I have my own. Yippeee.
DeleteHorse manure is good stuff for the garden. I sometimes use it for the roses, but first leave it in a corner near the compostheap, better than using it fresh.
ReplyDeleteAm currently working out which corner to stack it in out of the way! Makes me feel like a proper grown up having my own muck heap!
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