Garden Soil level sinking?!?!

Posted by GARDEN_101 none (My Page) on

Thu, Jul 3, 14 at 16:35

OK so I have 2 corn plants in 2 big 20 Liter baskets. With really good drainage ( Holes & rocks)

one of the baskets is filled black earth soil, and the other one is filled with pure sheep manure.

The one that's pure sheep manure is sinking. Like every 2 weeks it sinks about half a centimeter.

What am i doing wrong? How do i fix this? Am I watering too much, causing alot of the dirt to seep out of the container??

THX GARDENWEB!!!!!

Follow-Up Postings:

It sounds like the manure is (naturally and unavoidably) decomposing.

This is normal. Stuff in containers settles and seeps out. It's going to happen.

Not the question, but worth mentioning - growing in pure manure would be dangerous if it wasn't fully composted - risk of ecoli.

"Not the question, but worth mentioning - growing in pure manure would be dangerous if it wasn't fully composted - risk of ecoli.

On corn, not so likely.

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