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Posted by clarebear nsw aust (blondie24syd@aol.com) on Sun, May 29, 05 at 8:48
| hi there peoples, i have some aged cow manure, and i have built a garden around a very large gum tree, i was wondering , if i put cow manure in the new garden that i am building will it affect the gum tree.....and can u use cow manure on other australian natives? banksias, eucalypts, bottle brushes etc . i no that i cannot put it against the trunk of the tree :-) |
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RE: cow manure on natives? can i use it
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| g'day clarebear, so long as you don't dig the manure in i can't see a lot of problems, just lay the manure around the drip line area and cover with mulch, this way the feeder roots find the manure not the manure finding the roots sort of. len mail len lens garden page |
RE: cow manure on natives? can i use it
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| I use the bagged form of cow manure a lot on my natives. Whenever I am planting natives I mix in copious amounts of it. Have not had any bad reactions yet. I feel that provided it is well aged it is fine. Has anyone had any experience with Horse poo? |
RE: cow manure on natives? can i use it
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| I use horse and cow manure regularly without any problems at all. I even add bags of sheep manure to a big mulch pile we start every autumn with grass clippings and plane tree leaves collected from the local streets. My garden plants - mostly natives - love that mulch which we then slather over the garden in late spring. |
RE: cow manure on natives? can i use it
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| I grow most of my plants in cow manure, sometimes diluted with cheap potting mix (the $2/25L type stuff). Never had any problems. I've grown everything from Lechenaultias to Mountain Pepper to mallee gums. I have found it an excellent replacement for peat, and it is renewable/sustainable too! I usually buy it in bags where it seems to be reasonably composted, but I suspect that even fairly raw poo would work fine. (It seems very 'soft' as a food) |
RE: cow manure on natives? can i use it
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| Do not use fresh cow or horse manure or it will burn the blazes out of your plants. |
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