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    how to use chicken poo?!

    Hiya
    We have four chickens and are just starting to prepare a veg patch for next year. I currently pop all the chicken poo in the composter along with their used bedding, grass cuttings and weeds.
    As I'm preparing a veg bed will this be ok to dig straight into the soil and let it sit over winter? Should I be doing anything else to it to make it work better for my plants?!
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    mix 2 tablespoons of organic unsulphured blackstrap molasses in half a watering can of water, and apply to your compost bin every 2 weeks, or whenever you need to add moisture to the bin ....(available from most health shops for cheap)

    the molasses will feed and rapidly multiply the microbes, and you will have a 'better' manure/compost
    Last edited by dim; 14-08-2013, 03:26 PM.

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      Hi. I tip the hen bedding and poo straight onto parts of the veg patch that won't be planted for at least six months, so that it can really relax into the earth. I know there are plants that don't like going into earth that's been manured within a couple of years (onions, I think, amongst others), so I need to know where I've plonked it.

      It goes against some advice to put the manure straight onto the earth, but I've been doing it for several years and always had great results with it. I'm on good Herefordshire soil, but my veg patch is under a massive ash and on ground that took the brunt of waste from a large house extension long before we arrived, so my soil can use the help.
      Is there anything that isn't made better by half an hour pottering in the veg patch?

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