Cow Manure
For the last two years I have been adding cow manure to my pumpkin patch that
I purchased from Lowe's. It comes in 40 pound bags for $1.99 a bag and is
labelled "Cow Manure." It is manufactured by a company in Archbold, Ohio,
Gardenscape, and is widely used. I was talking to the owner of a local feed store
about what he had for sale in the way of cow manure. He had some dehydrated
manure from Texas that sold for around $4 a bag. I asked him why his was so much
more expensive than that at Lowe's. He said it was because what Lowe's was
selling is not cow manure but compost with some cow manure added. I had been
putting 20 bags of this stuff on my garden each fall (800 pounds dry) and feeling
good about it. The bag says "Cow Manure." Anyway, I called the company in
Archbold, Ohio and asked about the content of the bag labeled "Cow Manure." It turns
out it is 15 to 20% cow manure and the rest is composted straw and leaves.
Yesterday I forked 5 tons of smelly, mushy, incredibly hard to deal with, fresh,
just out of the cow, manure on my 2000 square foot patch and I feel good
about it. All that glitters is not gold and all that is labelled cow manure is not
just cow manure. Beware.
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