Mucking about!

Well Done Spritz&Hubby :) ul have the Best Roses/ Sweetpeas/ Flowers in the Village :) I some times collect bags of Manure when i see it 4sale on sides of roads :)

Beautiful stuff isn't it! Without doubt your roses will love it. I was dragged up in the East End of London and my grandfather with whom we lived used to send me out into the road with a coal shovel to collect whatever the horses had left after the milkman, coalman or shellfish vendor had called.

Lovely pics must be good if the worms like it. Love the flower pics too.

Thanks! Oh, yes, Toto - I have a little shovel, and a bucket - whenever I see a pile in the lane, I'm out there ASAP to add it to our bin! Sadly, it's not from interesting vendors' horses, though. :-((

Luverly stuff Spritz......

They have long gone as they belonged to another time.

Too true! Now we get fumes, not useful horse droppings.

we get lots of riders to and have often thought about shoveling up the muck, but wasnt sure if it had to be left to rot more or could be put on garden right away, i feel i remember that it can burn if not well rotted, am i correct barbara?

oops sorry lovely roses to lol, got carried away with muck :o)

Lovely...Nothing better than spending the day shovelling ****. You have some beautiful Roses Spritz..........

You MUST keep it to rot down for at least 6 months, Sandra - you're spot on - in its 'raw state' it's too strong and does harm plants. I shall dig it in where I'm going to plant my sweet peas, but not until the spring, just before they go in. The roses will get some as well - probably as a mulch. We also add it as it is to the compost bin in a thin layer, occasionally - it's really helpful for making good compost.

Thanks, Milky - I just chose the ones I like best!! I might add a few more............................................??

thanx barbara, i may have to start to collect some.

hello all... love the roses Spritz, and i think i reconise 2 varieties of thoughs sweet peas did i send the seeds? the middle one i think is wiltshire ripple???

and as for pooh in the garden, that is where i draw the line i'm affraid.... i have enough pooh from the foxes and neighbours cats don't need to be spreading horse pooh in with it.....lol... oh course i know it is not quite the same thing.... but call me pooh phobic, but it is still pooh!.... no i much prefer a nice bit of leaf mould, home brew compost, or at a real push part composted bark... for a nice bit of OM... i can always give the roses some sprinkle feed can't i...lol

Well done on getting the horse manure - I'm sure your plants will give thanks for it... we have GOT to get ourselves organised to go and get some for the new veg garden.

What we could do with that......great stuff, Great pics as well.

When I was a kid my old Gran used to have me following the summer pagaents for horse manure as she used to grow a lot of rhubarb, and I know all the old joke's about that too :o))))

Ooh scary - NOT - Bobg :-))

Whenever we took my gran somewhere and she'd see that a horse had been along there before us, she used to make my father stop the car and collect it in a bag for her to take home.

He wasn't a garden lover and was quite disgusted... He used to say "What's wrong with you Mam !" . lol. But she would only laugh at him.

You have been a busy bee, Spritz :-)

great stuff, that reminds me I must visit my friend and attack her pile :))))

I would love a trailer full of natures compost but Carol is also, as majeekahead puts it, a poohaphobic and just will not allow it in the garden! My soil is so sandy and thin it very quickly runs out of nutrients and this year most of my veggies failed due to a lack of them. Your roses are testiment to the goodness of 'muck' and they certainly look like they enjoy it! :~)))

Thanks, all. Yes - they sure do! I will tell you a little story - Are you sitting comfortably? etc. LOL.

The 'New Dawn' rose on the front of the house flowered very sparsely the first year we were here. I found a source of horse manure while walking Henry - and asked permission to take some. After the rose had been mulched and some dug in round its roots, WHOOSH!! I've never seen such a transformation! Up went long and healthy shoots - and in the summer, SO many flowers!

So husband built a bin just for manure, and we go and collect it as and when. It's natural stuff, organic, wonderful, and I don't think of it as 'pooh' at all! :-D

No Spritz neither do I as it doesn't come from a carnivor and therefore it even smells quite nice - YUM YUM.
As a child living in Lancashire during the war, I well remember everyone rushing out with buckets to be first to scoop up the golden bounty. The roses love it, and not only the roses.
Your lovely roses are testament to its goodness.
Oh and those worms are great too, so busy working the soil.

Your roses and sweet peas look wonderful.
Horse muck is one of the best things you can incorporate into a garden the other being Black Gold.
Wonder if it's any good for Violets LoL :~))

Errr...I don't think so! Poor little things - they'd turn into 'shrinking violets' I reckon! LOL.

I 'think' Pip is referring to a certain song... Sweet violets, sweet as the roses, covered all over from head to toe... I think I'll draw the line there lol

I should think so too, Mg! LOL. You shouldn't know songs like that!

Sorry, Pip - I thought you meant that little violet photo I posted.....

Sorry Spritz... I'll go and stand in the naughty corner :-(

No more songs like that, then? Not that I know any, of course! LOL. OK - you can come out now!

Thanks Miss... sniff

Interesting - this is a blog on 'Muck' - not 'mucky songs', Mg! LOL.

Never heard of that song Mg or Spritz.
You got it 1st time Spritz. Violet was ref Campanula Poschskyana aka Ging Gang Goolie LoL :~))

oh dear! oh dear!... :-S i know that horse pooh is good.... but well it IS still pooh.... and i do have a very mucky (forgive the pun) 4 year old daughter, who has a thing about playing with mud/soil and worms ....eeekekekekeekeeekekk I'm shuddering at the thought.......

Well, the worms seem to be special ones - they don't transfer to the soil. I shall have to ask a question about exactly why they're only to be found in manure! I do get worms in the compost bin, though, don't you?

The manure, once it has rotted down, you wouldn't know was there in the soil, Angie - and it's GREAT for your plants!

So stop shuddering, and try it! ;-)))

lol.... i asked a question about these worms last winter...nosy potter came back with some facinating info they are called branding or brandling worms... have a look he explains quite a lot on this thread.... and i have put compost in my soil before now that still has them in it without realising.... i hope they were ok.... and no still not gonna try it lol

Gee, I so envy you the worms! I have yet to see one in the garden here in Spain. I've even debated bringing some over from England, but decided it would be too much of a culture shock for the worms. I am, however, piling on the (very well rotted) goat manure.

hi Sorbus, goat pooh! eehehhehehehkkkkk even more so, thay eat anything don't they? one tried to eat Brookes hair at the farm last year... i had to smack him on the nose to get him off.... - gently ofcourse, but poor Brooke got most upset.... i told her it was because she is just soooooo scrummy.....

Angie - the reason that horse manure doesn't smell is that they are vegetarians....so their pooh is not like other animals - it has no nasty bugs or anything in it! Your plants would thank you if you could get over your pooh-phobia!! LOL

... i would'nt call it a pooh phobia exactly, just don't want Brooke playing pooh of any kind.... not too mention it is not easy to come by round here anyway... no i'll stick with my own methods of feeding and improving soil.. they seem to work don't they,,, i have nice roses... well i think i do.

No - I don't suppose you get many horses trotting about in Romford! LOL. I reckon as long as you feed the plants, they'll thrive.

The beauty of this stuff is that it's free, and abundant here! Produced daily! LOL.

i doubt it would be free around here Spritz.... Leaves are free around here... i often go and collect them up and compost them... :D

Oh - I wrote a blog about them recently! Just a tick............................

On 3rd October, called 'A recipe for black gold'. When you log on again, and you have a few minutes, you might like to look at it??

ofcourse i will.... i am still waiting for my hair to dry... it is very long and thick and hair dresser coming tomorrow... will cheer me up a bit :D so anyway won't be going to bed yet.... not a good idea is it, going to bed with damp hair... so anyway i may just have a look in a mo at that one...

OK. H. has just appeared - he knows when it's bedtime! Amazing dog. I can't work it out! :-))))

lol

Gorgeous flowers, Spritz! The muck certainly does its job!!

It does indeed, Marie! :-)

Lucky you having all that lovely stuff......I have just bought 'pauls scarlet' might try locally for some myself....:>)

Why not? The horse owners are often glad to get rid of it!