Netts
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Joined: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:49 pm
Location: Northern Spain

Sheep manure/ possible benefits

Hi everyone,
Where I live I have access to a large amount of animal manure. I had always believed it to be full of rich goodness, but on a recent radio gardening programme in England they seemed to see if mainly as a soil structure inprover mainly having very little other benefit.
Any info. please.

Newt
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Joined: Tue May 25, 2004 10:44 pm
Location: Maryland zone 7

Netts, it might be better for you to take a look at these sites. At this first site scroll down to 'Manures'.
https://www.rdrop.com/~paul/organics.html

Click on manures a this site.
https://www.gardening.cornell.edu/factsheets/orgmatter/index.html

More info on manure:
https://www.plantea.com/manure.htm
https://gardening.wsu.edu/stewardship/compost/manure/manure0.htm

Newt

opabinia51
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Location: Victoria, BC

Sheep manure is higher in Nitrogen that cow manure, it's C:N ratio is similar to that of Chicken manure but,not as high.

It is fine to use as any manure is just be careful not to add it directly to plants as you may burn them.

My recommondation is to add it with leaves to the soil as a sheet compost in the fall. By planting time it will be nicely composted and the earth worms will have pulled some of it deep into the soil.



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