Horse manure...

Murtle wrote:

be wary next time Queenie offers tea and cakes.....

Oh blast!!! Must have been *your* BBQ narna that fell on the floor

jeffdavies wrote:

Manure placed in a heap, covered by a piece of old carpet will soon rot down.
I built myself a small wooden enclosure a few years ago and during the warm summer months an added bonus is to regularly find a family of 'slow worms' lying directly underneath the carpet, enjoying the warm rays of the sun

Oooooo I take it you must live down south somewhere then I've only ever seen one in the wild and it was beautiful! Seen plenty of grass snakes and the occasional adder though, and on rare occasions managed to spot a few lizards, but we have very few native reptiles in this country unfortunately


Welcome to OS :hello:

Murtle wrote:

that's why it tasted funny....I thought it was herbs and spices

It was ..... Herbs de Provence al la Man Ure

Incidentally, I remember Geoff Thing from Gardeners' World years ago talking about the double benefits of horse manure:

Stick it in a corner as advised and leave to rot down. While it's rotting down, it gets very hot, as already noted. So you use it as an outdoor propogator - put your plants in trays on top of it (not necessarily DIRECTLY onto it, you could stick a bit of carpet on it of course) and the heat from the manure will speed up the growth of all your plants. I've tried this and it's really brilliant.

Then, when it's well-rotted, dig it into your garden. Two for the price of one!

What's old Geoff's surname by the way, it's bugging me now...

dig it in raw in the autumn, it'll be lush by spring. Or lay it thickly and steamingly:eek: over a weedy area; it'll kill off the weeds, and the ground will be lovely for next year.