Cow Manure natural fertilizer??? - Wildlife Gardeners

Operation Grow · 02-05-2010, 06:35 PM

Hey everyone im kind of a new gardner but for this year im going to be using natural fish and trench method of fertilizer but i also want to know since i have some cow manure buy the side of my house,

can i use that also? by burying it to into the ground, and the necessary steps? please help you with all the info you have. Thank you

TheLorax · 02-06-2010, 11:37 AM

Absolutely. Please do use the cow manure. It is loaded with nutrients and will add organic matter to your soil.

What is nice about using cow manure is that it is more forgiving than horse manure should you use it when it is too fresh.

Pahinh Winh · 02-06-2010, 11:53 AM

If you use fresh high-N fertilizer like horse, bury it further from your plants than if you use fresh lower-N fertilizer like cow. Or, to be safe, bury it down the center of the space between the rows & outside the likeliest maximum width of the root ball of whatever will grow in the rows. I use dog a lot & do this - I've never had burn problems, & dog manure is supposed to be really potent (high-N). or so I've heard. Anyway, it makes gorgeous results..

Operation Grow · 02-06-2010, 08:13 PM

Thank you for the information,

but the manure i will be using when i plant (march) will be atlast a month in a half old, still same pinciples?

benj1 · 02-06-2010, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Operation Grow

but the manure i will be using when i plant (march) will be atlast a month in a half old, still same pinciples?

Yes. It takes several months for a pile of cow manure to "age". Break it up and work it into your planting beds.

02-05-2010, 06:35 PM	#1
Operation Grow Carbon Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: AL	Cow Manure natural fertilizer??? Hey everyone im kind of a new gardner but for this year im going to be using natural fish and trench method of fertilizer but i also want to know since i have some cow manure buy the side of my house, can i use that also? by burying it to into the ground, and the necessary steps? please help you with all the info you have. Thank you

02-06-2010, 11:37 AM	#2
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	Absolutely. Please do use the cow manure. It is loaded with nutrients and will add organic matter to your soil. What is nice about using cow manure is that it is more forgiving than horse manure should you use it when it is too fresh. __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

02-06-2010, 11:53 AM	#3
Pahinh Winh Grub Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: North Dakota	Manure If you use fresh high-N fertilizer like horse, bury it further from your plants than if you use fresh lower-N fertilizer like cow. Or, to be safe, bury it down the center of the space between the rows & outside the likeliest maximum width of the root ball of whatever will grow in the rows. I use dog a lot & do this - I've never had burn problems, & dog manure is supposed to be really potent (high-N). or so I've heard. Anyway, it makes gorgeous results.. __________________ What have you done today to help heal the Sacred Hoop of the world, of which you, too, are a part?

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02-06-2010, 08:13 PM	#4
Operation Grow Carbon Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: AL	Thank you for the information, but the manure i will be using when i plant (march) will be atlast a month in a half old, still same pinciples?