1. Mulch at recycling center
2. Sawdust that sits and breaks down
3. Woodchips at mills
4. Rice hulls
5. Fall leaves collected and mowed over.
6. Make your own compost pile.
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8. Clean out animal stalls
9. Buy old hay that didn’t sell last year. (Or straw)
10. Coffee shops donations.
11. Save all your egg shells (cures leaf curl, blossom rot)
12. Save your wood ash
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I top off my garden beds with mulched oak leaves, ground egg shells, a little horse poo, coffee grounds, and compost made from food scraps and leaves. Seems to keep happy worms and bacteria life in place, and minimal tilling disturbance helps keep my healthy mycelium around to assist with mineral uptake.
If you have trays under your rabbits and you dump them at the first of the year on a planting area…..i actually burned up broccoli, cabbage and many other plants. The pepper sat there and simmered and the volunteer sauce tomatoes thrived. Lol. This year that spot grew well with similar crops. So rabbit manure with urine and low rain and snow fall after the first of the year throughout the growing season means burnt up plants.
I was just saying rabbit poop when you said it. People think I’m crazy, but I have my rabbit pin inside my garden! In the winter I let them loose… They just run, play and poop everywhere! They love winter and so does my garden….. When it’s time to plant they go back in the pin, of course I can keep the poop from the pin too but letting them run in the garden all winter is easy!
Thank you very much. David The Good has warned to be careful with hay (and I imagine similer crops) because sometimes it’s been sprayed with persistent herbacides (amino perilids?) that last for years – even after being digested by animals (so maneur also have to be careful with) and can kill your garden.
Call your SMALL arbor/tree companies. Larger companies will charge you to dump chips. The small companies would rather dump to local farmers, gardens, and families than pay to dump a load of chips.
Signed- An Arborist wife and owner of a small company
QUESTION: AM I SUPPOSED TO BURY THE COFFEE GROUNDS AND CRUSHED UP EGG SHELLS IN THE GARDEN AND IF SO, HOW DEEP?? OR AM I JUST SUPPOSED TO SPRINKLE COFFEE GROUNDS AND CRUSHED EGG SHELLS ON TOP OF SOIL AFTER LEAVES, MULCH, SAWDUST, ASHES, ANIMAL POOP ETC?
Planning to start prepping the ground YAHUAH willing! Thanks for sharing this
I top off my garden beds with mulched oak leaves, ground egg shells, a little horse poo, coffee grounds, and compost made from food scraps and leaves. Seems to keep happy worms and bacteria life in place, and minimal tilling disturbance helps keep my healthy mycelium around to assist with mineral uptake.
Haha I’m doing the same thing
I used the quail manure and pine shaving litter to mulch my strawberries, best berries ever. I did it fall before.
If you have trays under your rabbits and you dump them at the first of the year on a planting area…..i actually burned up broccoli, cabbage and many other plants. The pepper sat there and simmered and the volunteer sauce tomatoes thrived. Lol. This year that spot grew well with similar crops. So rabbit manure with urine and low rain and snow fall after the first of the year throughout the growing season means burnt up plants.
Would you recommend this method also if you are container gardening?
I was just saying rabbit poop when you said it. People think I’m crazy, but I have my rabbit pin inside my garden! In the winter I let them loose… They just run, play and poop everywhere! They love winter and so does my garden….. When it’s time to plant they go back in the pin, of course I can keep the poop from the pin too but letting them run in the garden all winter is easy!
is rabbit on the do not eat list
Thank you very much. David The Good has warned to be careful with hay (and I imagine similer crops) because sometimes it’s been sprayed with persistent herbacides (amino perilids?) that last for years – even after being digested by animals (so maneur also have to be careful with) and can kill your garden.
Could we do several of those things together?
If you use hay make 100% sure it’s not been sprayed with an herbicide!!! It will destroy your garden!!
We use rabbits pellets, compost, ashes from burn pile and leaves.
I have used fish meal on my potatoes with great results blend with coffee grounds and egg shell powder and horse manure then cover with hay
For those with dirt that is high calcium content like caliche, adding a vinegar can make that calcium bio available to your plants.
Call your SMALL arbor/tree companies. Larger companies will charge you to dump chips. The small companies would rather dump to local farmers, gardens, and families than pay to dump a load of chips.
Signed- An Arborist wife and owner of a small company
QUESTION: AM I SUPPOSED TO BURY THE COFFEE GROUNDS AND CRUSHED UP EGG SHELLS IN THE GARDEN AND IF SO, HOW DEEP?? OR AM I JUST SUPPOSED TO SPRINKLE COFFEE GROUNDS AND CRUSHED EGG SHELLS ON TOP OF SOIL AFTER LEAVES, MULCH, SAWDUST, ASHES, ANIMAL POOP ETC?