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Morning. I cleaned the chickens out this morning, and put the combined shavings, chicken poo and scattered feed onto the veg patch as a top dressing. I avoided anything that fruits at ground level (so in my case lettuce, strawbs and courgettes and all the herbs), but packed it round the base of tomatoes, raspberries and my sole aubergine plant, and round the beetroot foliage. I then watered it all thinking the water would wash the nutrients into the soil for the roots to take up.
Is it okay to do this? I dug it in to the ground in early spring before planting, and put lots on the strawberry plants before they flowered, and we've had a great crop this year. I'm planning to put the next on the parsnips and carrots, keep topping up the tomatoes (they're fruiting but not ripening yet) and keep feeding the rasps with it. I've heard about manure being a bit vicious sometimes if it isn't rotted - does this apply to mixed chicken poo, sawdust and food, as well as horse manure?
Is it okay to do this? I dug it in to the ground in early spring before planting, and put lots on the strawberry plants before they flowered, and we've had a great crop this year. I'm planning to put the next on the parsnips and carrots, keep topping up the tomatoes (they're fruiting but not ripening yet) and keep feeding the rasps with it. I've heard about manure being a bit vicious sometimes if it isn't rotted - does this apply to mixed chicken poo, sawdust and food, as well as horse manure?
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