Poop Power! Unleashing the Garden Gold

[@pennybutler418]

I dont live too far from greenlife. I keep meaning to head there and give their stuff a try. The products I get at my local hardware do not seem to be great quality. I got the baileys potting mix to up-pot my seedlings and a few of them shriveled up after a couple of days…plus, it seems to be mainly big chunks of bark and sticks. We have cows, goats, horses and alpacas. Every now and again I go into the paddock, get a tractor bucket load of the old hay that they have spread, stepped on, pooped and peed on and I put it into a big pile. Turn it every few months and just let it sit. I use that as mulch.

[@Thecultivatingcurmudgeon]

Worth giving them a shot. I've found Baileys ok but made the mistake of getting Garden basics once, had a pH of 12!!! Killed anything planted in it. Sounds like a great mulch you get.

[@FarmingInTheWild]

Do you have any issues with stickers after using such hay.

[@Thecultivatingcurmudgeon]

Love to be able to answer but afraid I dont know what stickers are 😀I assume its a kind of inscect so the answer would probably be no. There doesnt seem to be any more pests but there are a lot more earthworms. (Just thought, maybe spell checker change from slaters? If so yes a few more but not enough to be an issue and they are helpful in the garden)

[@FarmingInTheWild]

@Thecultivatingcurmudgeon lol I didn't even think. It's a grassbur. The actual seed that hay comes from. They usually have pricky spurs that you can step on. They are awful.

[@Thecultivatingcurmudgeon]

@@FarmingInTheWild Ah ok, we have double Gs that are a prickle that is extremely painful if you stand on them. But no, this stuff is pretty much weed free.

[@FarmingInTheWild]

@Thecultivatingcurmudgeon Oh wow, that's a relief. I'm going back on your videos and getting ideas. This type of country we live in out here is extremely hard to grow in. We mostly farm coastal hay and grasshoppers lol 😆