Re: CULT: Use of Manure
- Subject: Re: CULT: Use of Manure
- From: L* M*
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:53:58 -0400
I would add one bit of my own experience to Sharon's excellent post
about using manure:
Just as an experiment, I piled about a 6 inch thick layer, 3 ft wide, of
fresh horse poop (not manure from bedding, which contains urine, but
fresh poop out of the driveway where the inconsiderate horse left it) to
both sides of an ~3 ft wide double row of irises several years ago and
had some of the best growth & bloom I've seen here. In my case, the
thick layer of decomposing muck probably kept the soil cool, provided
more consistant moisture for lateral iris roots than is usual in my
gravelly soil, and gradually released nutrients, as well as attracting a
lot of earthworms. I would love to be able to do this between all my
iris rows some year.
Just for the heck of it (being sceptical of all 'truths'), I also put
some of this same fresh poop on top of three rhizomes each of three
different cultivars - they did NOT like that one bit, tho some survived
& outlasted the manure burial. Most rotted.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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