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funny I'm having a hard time growing grass and noticed the areas where my dog pooped has produced some of the thickest, most bountiful grass I have ever seen!
Maybe they urinate in the other areas and that is why it is not growing in those areas????
OK, so how about this then? We cleared an area around one of our trees in the backyard of all weeds and other ground cover. Recently, about 6 or 7 tomato plants started mysteriously growing there (We've never had tomatoes here, nor do our neighbors). Then, in another area of the yard, a couple of tomatillo plants started growing. Now, we're in Pennsylvania, so tomatilloes don't grow here. We had no idea how these plants could have grown. Then one day, my wife remembered that those are the areas that the dog poops in. We feed tomatoes to the dog. We also let him finish some salsa made with tomatilloes. Get it? The dog pooped out the seeds, and now they're growing.
OK, so how about this then? We cleared an area around one of our trees in the backyard of all weeds and other ground cover. Recently, about 6 or 7 tomato plants started mysteriously growing there (We've never had tomatoes here, nor do our neighbors). Then, in another area of the yard, a couple of tomatillo plants started growing. Now, we're in Pennsylvania, so tomatilloes don't grow here. We had no idea how these plants could have grown. Then one day, my wife remembered that those are the areas that the dog poops in. We feed tomatoes to the dog. We also let him finish some salsa made with tomatilloes. Get it? The dog pooped out the seeds, and now they're growing.
You do not use dog poop for several reasons; just like you do not use human waste for growing anything humans will be eating. You will get sick. If you buy manure at Walmart, there are two things that make it different; it has been "composted," (cooked to kill pathogens), and it is not from a carnivore!
We use chicken litter on hay fields, but never in our veg. garden. If it eats meat, do not use it, even if composted, on food slated for human consumption.
You do not use dog poop for several reasons; just like you do not use human waste for growing anything humans will be eating. You will get sick. If you buy manure at Walmart, there are two things that make it different; it has been "composted," (cooked to kill pathogens), and it is not from a carnivore!
We use chicken litter on hay fields, but never in our veg. garden. If it eats meat, do not use it, even if composted, on food slated for human consumption.
Both processed and raw human feces are common fertilizers in vegetable gardens worldwide. In the US, processing is required. but many people use it. In the Soviet bloc countries, it was often the only fertilizer available. I have yet to read of the outbreak of disease as a result.
Thanks for the tip on the poop How do you compost it?
find a nice shady spot, start piling the doggie doo there, also pile grass clippings on top of it, and fallen leaves, any vegetable waste, and slow moving children, an old guy or two, roadkill---virtually any organic matter will decompose and enrich the soil.
When my father was in the army, during the Korean war, they were told not to eat any of the raw vegetables sold by the locals; the vegetables has been fertilized with human waste. They had an outbreak of various diseases, the least of which was hepatitis; (just like what still happens in Mexico, and happened here, (with strawberries, a few years back). Now the Korean war was how many years ago? And they knew back then, but you don't know now?
But, you just keep on eating it, and someday when you suddenly have a seizure,and wake up to find a pencil length roundworm coming out your nose, you WILL get the message, no matter how hard headed you are. That is about the least of the "things" you can catch from eating feces from carnivores, including humans.
As for chicken litter/fertilizer, please read my post again; I said for hayfields, NOT for human consumption...I am well aware that chickens are not vegetarians; we raised them all our lives.
I was raised in the country, and I do mean out in the woods and swamps. We were ridiculed, and I still am ridiculed from city dwellers that are horrified over some of the things we eat down here, but we don't eat animal waste, and da*n sure know not to eat anything fertilized with human waste.
As for third world countries....that is your argument for using human and animal waste....really???
How bout we just get rid of all the sewage systems in the US; since human waste is OK to fertilize with, it surely will not harm our drinking water, right? I mean, when has a little raw sewage ever hurt anyone?
I am being VERY sarcastic.
Anyone here aware of what killed the majority of the Yankee prisoners at Andersonville?
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How do you compost it?
