Re: Cock-a-Doodle-Poo

Damian - I do much the same with horse-muck. Nope, I confess the
horses aren't actually IN the garden. (I rather wish they were.) They
belong to a friend and neighbour with a livery stable. Every so often
I fill the car-boot with bags of her beasts' best product, then mix it
into my bins of composting vegetation. Sea-weed gets chucked into the
same mixture, spring and autumn. Everything's then left to rot down,
with the occasional session of stir'n'chop. Feeding with this deluxe
mixture is a silly regime for Medit. plants, of course, but then I do
grow a lot of what are really rain-forest inhabitants as well. Well,
that's my excuse. Truthfully, I think I just enjoy playing with the
stuff - and that the whole regime's as much for my benefit as for the
plants'...!
>
>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.
>
Cheers
Tim
Tim Longville
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