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Moo-Nure Safe?
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Posted by
kristensoups none (
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Sun, Jul 22, 12 at 19:32
| Hello!
I'm a gardening newbie and just starting my fall garden (doing square foot gardening). My raised beds are complete and we just added this soil mixture:
3 parts organic top soil
1 part moo-nure
1. Is that a good mixture to start with?
2. Is it safe to use moo-nure? ... this is really my main question!!
3. If it's safe ... how long should I wait to plant?
Now I am nervous to plant anything!!!
Thanks in advance!!! |
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RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Moo-nure would be as safe to use aas any other composted animal manure. Unless you can be sure this has been composted properly, ie. with 3 parts vegetative waste to 1 part manure and thjat the temperatures of the material excedded 135 degree F for a sufficient time, I would not put this on my gardens 90 to 120 days before I would be havesting food from there. |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Thanks! I am going to call the manufacture and try to get more information from them - i can't find anything online that outlines what their ingredients and processes are. I will share what i find ... |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| i talked with the manufacturer and they said they their product is composted for approximately 6 months. sooo, i'm thinking that the moo-nure would now be safe to use in the garden and then take into consideration I won't be harvesting for another 2-3 months. Agreed? Thanks. |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Yes, it should be quite safe to use. Happy gardening! |
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- Posted by jolj 7b/8a-S.C.,USA (My Page) on
Tue, Jul 24, 12 at 20:08
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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I'm glad it's safe.
I've been using it a long time, so I wasn't so concerned about that. Does anyone know about it's composition?
I've only recently been concerned about soil composition, so I'm interested in finding out. If the main thing I am adding is nitrogen, I might want to stop... I want flowers, fruits and veggies. Not huge, very green plants. |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Maybe you could try google "cow manure composition"? I think manure that has most N is chicken manure but I could be wrong. |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Typically a composted manure is in the range of 1-1-1 NPK, give or take. Of course, it's going to vary quite a bit depending on what kind of critters the manure came from, how it was composted and whether anything else was mixed in. There are other metrics of whether you're getting the right nutrient balance: how are your plants doing, and also, a soil test. Those, plus knowing what you're putting in, all together will tell you how you're doing. |
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When talking about the nutrients in animal manures you need to know, and recognize, that there are those that are readily available and there are total nutrients. What is listed on the bag of manure, say 0.6 - 0.8 - 0.5, is the soluble, readily available, nutrients. Poultry manure, chicken, is generally higher in both availlable and total Nitrogen.
Spreading animal manures on soils, without additional vegetative waste to properly utilize those nutrients, can mean you loose a large amount of those nutrients as they gas off to the atmosphere and are leached out of the soil by rain water and pollute the ground water. Properly composting animal manures prior to putting them on the garden means more of the nutrients are held for later use by the plants. |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Are you suggesting the product in question was not properly composted? |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| I've found rabbit manure to be safer and quite affective. I f you have access to any give it a try. You can put a scoop of rabbit manure in the planting hole with your seeds or seedlings and it won't burn them up. It slow realeases its nutrients and does quite well. If you have Craig's list you can post for free rabbit manure in your area and many rabbit farmers will give you some. You may have to take a shovel and scoop it yourself but a 5 gallon bucket goes a long way. Good luck. |
RE: Moo-Nure Safe?
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| Black Cow is 0.5-0.5-0.5. I'm not familiar with moo-nure. SQFT Gardening method prescribes a "soil-less mix" of 1/3 Vermiculite, 1/3 Peat Moss, and 1/3 compost. The compost - if purchased - should be a mix of composts from 5 separate sources. Moo-Nure can be one of those five. I do not know if Moo-Nure is fully composted. When I purchased compost, very few bags were fully decomposed. Most were more like mulch than compost. IF Moo-Nure is not well rotted, it is dangerous adding it to your garden. |
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