Re: Horse Manure
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Horse Manure
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- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:39:34 -0500
From: "Robert & Lucy Harris" <harrisfamily@coastalnet.com>
Jan,
I buy rabbit pellets at my local Wal-mart store and the five pound bag is
less than three dollars. My Iris bed is 12 feet by 24 feet. The article
I quoted said a fifty pound bag of horse pellets would cover five hundred
square feet. They also stated they use four tons applied to two acres in
intervening years on intensively planted ground, used for irises for about
fifteen years. I only have a small flower bed and this is my first real
year at perfecting my Iris growing technic. I have gathered iris rhizomes
and a little data. I was sharing what I have learned so far. I just
discovered my first iris bud for this year today. I applied the rabbit
pellets three weeks ago to my iris bed.
Lucy in Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Clark <janclarx@hotmail.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Horse Manure
>From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
>
>> I see several messages about finding and using horse manure.
>>Horses are feed alfalfa pellets. Rabbit pellets also contain alfalfa
>>meal. These are easily bought and easy to carry home. I scattered a
>>five pound bag, of rabbit pellets in my iris bed and watered it in.
>
>That would explain the lack of seeds in the manure. In Australia horses are
>commonly fed whole oats, and oat sheaves. Also lucerne hay (your alfalfa)
>and pasture hay. It is also common enough to get wheat seeds growing from
>the manure, if it is miked with wheates straw.
>Wheat and oats are wuite easy to pull out and make good much or compost.
>I noticed the local grain store had lucerne pellets for the garden. These
>were quite expensive, but I might try a bag. How heavily do I need to apply
>them?
>If it is only a hand full or two per clump, then it might not cost too
much.
>Cheers, Jan Clark, in Australia, where it is cool and overcast, and there
is
>work to be done in the garden away from this %^$# computer!
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