Cock-a-Doodle-Poo
- To: t*@eddy.u-net.com
- Subject: Cock-a-Doodle-Poo
- From: i*@cgac.es
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:34:04 +0100
Tim, I have recently started experimenting with chicken-improved
grass-clipping-mulch/compost. It works like this...
I spread mounds of raw grass clippings out in the hen pen up at the end
of the garden. The chickens love scratching around in it and over the
next few weeks it dries out and becomes "improved" by chickens doing
what chickens do on it. I then pile up this super organic hay in a
corner of the pen to compost and make space for new additions of grass
clippings.
Damian Martin
Talavera, Central Spain
Zone 8ish, hot dry Summers, cold dry Winters, some rain in between, sun
all year.
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>
> How could I resist putting in my belated twopenn'orth or two cents
> worth on this enthralling subject?
>
> I use a pelletted version of the chicken product which is called
> Rooster, which works very effectively, and which is more or less
> odourless. At least, odourless enough for me to mix it by hand into
> potting mixtures for shrubs and trees I know are going to be
> containerized for some time, and not be barred from the house
> afterwards. Well, not YET. I won't deny that, to pick up Moira's
> phrase, there's a faint whiff of the farmyard about it - and,
> afterwards, about me.
>
> But, then, so far as I'm concerned, getting dirty and smelly is one of
> the pleasures of gardening. I defend myself by calling it grandly 'a
> legitimated area of regression to childhood' - though no doubt
> analysts might have different explanations...
>
> Tim
> Solway Coast, Uk
> mild, moist, cool, -3C > 28C
> Tim Longville
