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Reside a forestry setting. Cold winters down to 20 degrees with mild summers to 90-93 degrees. Cow manure all around due to the farmers. Wondered if there is anything that can solely in aged cow manure
Check the pH. If close to neutral grasses and some weeds will grow on the surface where there is some oxygen. Crops usually can’t because manure compacts so not enough oxygen for roots and fresh manure is always too full of ammonia. Thus high pH.
A friend of mine had a neighbor with horses. Their kids planted pumpkin seeds all over the pile in the spring.
By late summer, you couldn't see the pile from all the plants and BIG pumpkin growing everywhere.
I'm taking a guess that any variety of squash will grow well in manure (unless cow manure is far different)
Horse manure is much different from cow manure, drier and usually mixed with a lot of straw or sawdust. Cow manure is dense and needs to be tilled into soil, or have something added to break it up.
Horse manure is just about perfect for growing things-- median amounts of N & minerals after it ages several weeks and still a great fibrous texture-- good for aeration & making the nutrients optimally available to roots.
Let it age further and it will eventually (several months) turn into humus.
Cow manure is higher in N, but less fibrous.
Either should be tilled into the soil....I take horse manure/stall muckings and run it thru an old kitchen blender to pulverize it for seed starts in late winter/early spring. Excellent for that purpose.
Horse manure is much different from cow manure, drier and usually mixed with a lot of straw or sawdust. Cow manure is dense and needs to be tilled into soil, or have something added to break it up.
I agree with this. ^
OP if you have lots of well rotted horse manure available you could conceivably grow a number of things in that horse manure alone, and you will also get lots of good, healthy desirable mycelium growing in it which will deliver nutrients from the manure to the plants.
But cow manure, like several other types of strong manure, is a different story and I doubt you'd have much success with growing things in the cow manure alone without it burning what you're trying to grow. Cow manure also needs to be really aged and well rotted right through to the point it is dehydrated and easily crumbled. It should then be broken, crushed or crumbled up into small pieces that need to be mixed well into the top layer of garden soil along with some other dry organic plant material like tiny bits of wood, sawdust, dried or composted leaves, peat moss, etc. Once it is all mixed together there will be less risk of the cow manure burning the seeds or plants you put into the soil, and it will be easier for the mycelium to form in the soil.
Preparing soil mediums and growing things in it is like cooking a grand meal. You have to know what the list of required ingredients is, what the constituents of those ingredients are, how much of each is needed, when to combine them together, what temperature to cook it at and for how long to cook it for it to all come out of the oven cooked to perfection.
Should be some existing soil if there is a forest. It wont have lot top soil, just the nature of forest soil. I wouuldnt use straight horse poop unless its composted down to humus. But mix it with whats there or truck in some sand and sawdust. All that nitrogen in the manure will help break down the saw dust.
Also if forest area, be aware tall trees can block sun giving only few hour during the day. And of course you need regular rain or watering from some other source.
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