Victorians,fertiliser and water butts

Yes why not.

I suggest you do not use your email address as your username, you will get inundated with spam.

Up here it is still done with a bag of sheep manure, stinks to high heaven but does the trick!

PS You don't need much!

Yep, just stuff it into a pair of tights and dangle it over the edge! Sheep muck that is!!!!!!!!!!!

Mmm... with free-roaming sheep round my property, I've taken to putting an empty Growmore bucket with a lid in the boot of my truck so I can (god just how sad am I? no don't answer that!) collect any stray sheep sh!t on my travels, or horse sh!t and bring it back home to my SHEEP DIP Trough, where it is happily steeping in rainwater.

Sheep Doo-Doo is one of the best all-round (ha! ha!) fertilisers, because sheep eat virtually everything in their wake.

Dried Chicken Pellets steeped in water would surely enrich the nutrient content of the water. Personally, whatever the Poo producing the watery Goo, I'd not water it on my plants stronger than a very weak-tea kind of looking strength?

Didn't realsie that until it was too late so I immediately emailed whoever runs the site so as to remove it but they haven't got back to me!

If you're really keen you can try making compost tea. There are a variety of websites and youtube seminars to show how its done but basically you deliberatly try to increase the numbers of good bacteria via oxygenation. You make an aerobic conconction with a high concentration of mibcrobes found in earthy compost merely by providing the right condistions for them to reporoduce - oxygen and food.

Its dead easy and all you need is a bucket and a simple aquarium pump which costs <£10 on ebay. The process is then similar to the leaching but with the pump blowing bubbles through the liquid. The extra oxygen stimuates the bacteria reproduction and within 24 hous you should have a fantastic brew. You can add sugar in the form of molasses to help the process. This can then be applied as a spray to foliar feed or directly to the roots when watering. It must be applied quickly though as the microbes will die if left too long and they run out of food.

There are so many variations on this if interetsed you should look into it further. I'm going to give this a go once I get my pump and I'll let you know how it gets on. I'm using a design by Bruce Deuley if you want to google it.

Its worth watching the youtube videos as you've got to love the way Americans pronouce "Cowmpowst". It at the other end of the scale to that of my Yorkshire accent!