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| I want to fertilize my lawn and pastures this year with manure tea. Applying it with a hose sprayer would be the best option for covering the acreage (if I can gather long enough hoses!) I have a problem with white clover in the pasture and my horses get the clover slobbers from the fungus. I'd like to fertilize to eliminate or discourage clover. I am planning to over-seed pasture and lawn this year. I have unlimited amounts of horse manure, goat manure, chicken manure and bat guano. If I'm making a tea to address the above concerns, what manures or combination of manures would be best? |
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- Posted by greenthumbzdude (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 12:40
| I would do a chicken and bat combo tea and then let the pasture grow for a month to allow the gasses to grow large enough to shade out the clover. |
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| If you use compost tea wouldnt that just be feeding the clover? Clover is a broad leaf so Im sure you can spray it with a herbicide and leave your leave your grass intact and then in 2-3 weeks top seed your pasture preferably a fews hours before a nice rain shower. |
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| Making compost or manure tea is similar, so maybe this article written by Dr. Elaine Ingham might be of some use and help answer your questions. White Dutch Clover usually appears in soils that are low in available Nitrogen so possibly spraying manure tea would increase that and the clover would die out. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Making Compost/manure Tea
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| Thanks, I did have someone tell me that fertilizing with fresh horse manure may increase nitrogen and the clover would die out. I think I'm going to give it a try. I wouldn't mind having red clover, but the white is a problem. |
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| When I was growing up people seeded White Dutch Clover to help grow a nice lawn and then "weed" killers came on the market and they killed the WDC along with other wild flowers so the WDC became a "weed" and undesireable in a lawn for many people. |
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| Dainnelmt.... Good luck with that..even fresh horse maure top dressed (unless your adding wet 3-4 inches) which will burn or smother the clover will have most of the nitrgen depleteted before it reaches the root zone. Most composted manure has less than 1-1-1- nutrient level Im afraid you are just feeding the clover. can you take some before and after pics? |
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| Well the horses do a good job of top dressing the pastures with fresh manure and the clover hasn't died out yet, so it probably is just feeding it. Would the bat guano be better for raising nitrogen levels? The horses sure do love the white clover, but their allergies to the fungus on the clover is terrible. I hate to have to give my horses benedryl all summer. |
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