Manure Tea

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Samba old boy long time no hear

Manure tea is great stuff at least here out in the dry desert. If your

manure is well rotted it "generally " has never damaged my crops. My rule of

thumb for my climate is if the plants are heavy feeders I feed once a week

with 20 liters of water and three liters of dry poop. Let soak in for a

night and pour it on in the morning. I put my manure in a a ladies stocking

and hang in the water. I use the same "tea bag" for about five to ten uses.

The then "spent " manure is unceremoniously dumped on the most needy plant in

the area where it still does some good. I then make up a fresh batch. As

the tea gets weaker with use I use it on plants that have a low need like

orchards any way it works for me. I hope this helps. Say are your potatoes

getting lots of water? When I scrimped on the water my potatoes turned up

small also.

Carol

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Here in England we are growing potatoes solely on compost made from Prasad

waste and leaves and pine needles, swept up from all the roads around the

Manor.

 

So far we have thriving large plants and one dust bin I cut the bottom off

has a three foot plant in it. It seems you must not cover too much of the

plant when you fill up with compost. This is low Ph which potatoes prefer.

No ash was added to this compost. We have also found slow worms and a 3 foot

grass snake basking ontop of these metaphylic heaps.

 

Potato results - will let you know.