I live for poop

Charlie MV · Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:26 pm

I spread 2500 more lbs of composted manure in two garden plots today. That has to be one of the most satisfying tasks in the field of all human endeavor. Am I weird?

2cents · Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:04 pm

Was it cow fed alfalfa?
You have to love the sweet smell of that stuff!

su_ju · Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:10 pm

If you're weird, then I am too!

I was very excited when, for my birthday last year, I got dirt! Compost (with manure in it) to be exact. My hubby and son put together a raised bed, and the dirt to fill was my birthday present!

JustPeachy · Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:19 am

I don't think you're wierd at all!!! If someone gave me composted manure to put in my raised beds this season I would be just as happy!

~Emily

elevenplants · Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:55 am

If you're weird, you're certainly my kind of weird.

2cents · Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:56 am

Chuck,
su_ju got poop for a birthday present.

su_ju, that is the most incredible story I've ever heard.

And you sound genuinely happy.

If I did that for my wife, she wouldn't talk to me for a year.
How is it I didn't set out to find a wife, I could give poop to for her birthday

smokensqueal · Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:02 pm

2cents, What, she wouldn't talk to you for years? I got to try that. Talk about befitting from someone else present.

My wife already thinks I'm nuts. so I think she would just chalk that up as another nutty thing. I've went from a computer nerd to a garden turd. Nothing like keeping the garden full of nutrients.

But she says she still loves me. Must be all the free veggies.

Czechmate79 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:39 pm

I love poop as well, but from a small flying mammal. I have over a half dozen occupied bat houses that produce about 2 gallon sized jugs of guano per season...more than enough for my 4x8' garden for two years!

2cents · Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:17 pm

How do you capture the guano?
Did you build a bat house?
Please let us know.

Czechmate79 · Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:50 pm

I have built and installed many bat houses and lead the bat house project at my local Nature Center. I just collect the guano from the ground under the houses every two weeks during the occupied season. With two of my bat houses having over 400 bats each in them, it doesn't take long to scoop up a gallon! I have had a 90% occupancy rate with my bat house designs so getting guano is usually an easy task for me.

PeterMcC · Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:14 pm

I spent several happy days filling trailer loads of sheep and cow manure from a slurry pit and carting the lot in several journeys to my new garden about 200 metres away from the pit. Lucky it was earlier this spring otherwise flies would have ruined the experience.

Really enjoyed itÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ weird but at least now I know I'm not alone!

2cents · Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:42 pm

This years poo had lots of rye and stuff! Uurrrgggh!!

Sweet Petunia · Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:51 pm

Okay...I LOVE to garden...I mean I really love it!! But...I have to say that I havent reached the point of loving the smell of poop just yet!!
I love the smell of dirt....but not poop!!

somegeek · Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:23 pm

2cents wrote:How do you capture the guano?

Chase them around in the dark with a bucket.

Great subject line by the way.

somegeek

The Helpful Gardener · Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:03 pm

Straight poop bad; composted poop good...

HG

atascosa_tx · Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:46 pm

The Helpful Gardener wrote:Straight poop bad; composted poop good...

HG

Much agreed....composted poop don't smell...kinda smells...umm..earthy.
If there was such a scent.

happy gardening

The Helpful Gardener · Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:40 pm

Bad smells are anarobic smells, and anoxic conditions are not good for plants...

HG