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RE: Don’t Be Afraid of Composting: Making Compost as Helping Mental Health, Soil Health, and Physical Health

in HiveGarden4 years ago

Thank you so much! I play it on the safe side and use my compost mostly as top dressing or mulch style. I try and make quick compost (lots of grass clippings) so planting directly in it can be bad as it still need to break down etc. But I grow hardy so-called weeds in it (like rocket, dandelions, mustard greens) as they are cheap and also I think good for the compost. After I grow these so-called weeds in the compost, I use it as normal compost. I have a whole setup going haha.

But I could reckon that the chicken manure makes for the best compost or addition to soil for veggies?

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 4 years ago  

Whatever I grow in the areas I've had the chickens running in always does well, so I'd hazard a guess that it's good stuff! I was given some bags of sheep manure one year and did better with broccoli that year than the horse manure we can usually get hold of for free.

 4 years ago  

Free stuff like that is always awesome! I know a lot of regenerative farming (or I know of one) here uses sheep to fertilize the fields, and a winery uses special "face masks" for the sheep so that they can eat the weeds but not the grapes, in so doing fertilizing the soil.