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14 years ago

Folks on the farm there's a barn with six stalls and they have never been cleaned out I'm 47 and never seen it done.Me and the lads cleaned one stall out last year.And mixed it with wood chips green weeds I scyth from around the farm and old dust and hay(best looking compost I've ever seen)Question will this compost with the old manure hurt my worms.

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11otis
14 years ago
They'll LOVE it. Yum yum!
sbryce_gw
14 years ago
It is about the best thing you could possibly feed them!
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docgipe
14 years ago
Move all of that gold you can get. Three or four inches a year is not to much. Run a cover crop over it in the fall. Till in the spring. You will be soil building in the finest order.

You might want to consider and use Mycorrhizae for an even better healthy soil.
kenr1963
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks for all of the info I was wondering about the urine that has been building up for all tthes years.

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