LOTS OF POOP - OVER 200 GALLONS OF RABBIT MANURE TO START OFF THE GARDENING SEASON
Yes, having this much poop makes me really happy!
While this may not be everyone's style, it certainly works for me. For gardeners, finding a good, organic fertilizer can be important, and many of us really need to improve the soil quality in our garden areas.
WHY RABBIT MANURE?
Unlike some other manures, rabbit manure is a "cold" manure. Manures that are considered "hot" must first be composted prior to be added to the garden. While you can still compost "cold" manure, it is not necessary. The reason that "hot" manures must first be composted is that they contain such a high level of Nitrogen that they will "burn" your plants, which is basically an overload of Nitrogen that can kill or stunt them.
Nitrogen is one of the key components in plant growth, along with Phosphorus and Potassium. Without good amounts of Phosphorus and Potassium, your plants will have trouble rooting and fruiting, so too much Nitrogen without these others will just make large, under-productive plants. Thankfully, rabbit manure contains all three of these important elements. While other chemical elements, like Magnesium and Calcium, are also important, many consider the three that I mentioned to be primary, or must crucial.
Around here, the "soil" is a lot of rock and clay. This is not the best for growing fruits and vegetables, so we are hard at work improving the soil condition. Thankfully, we can periodically get free mulch (wood chips) and sometimes even compost in a nearby town, which helps a lot. Besides that, we've got to use our own resources and get creative. In addition to composting and chipping our own yard waste, we've got some of our animals to thank.
For a while now I've been collecting the rabbit manure and saving it up for this garden season. I use five gallon buckets to collect and store it, and in total I had over 40! Yes, so with some simple math, that is more than 200 gallons of rabbit manure. In planting the hops, raspberries, strawberries, and other plants I've already been tapping into our supply, but thankfully the rabbits are hard at work making more for us.
Eventually, we hope to have a rich, living soil here on the homestead that can support the growth of a lot of healthy and nutritious food bearing plants. So far, we are heading in the right direction, but we've got a lot of work ahead of us. So, the question now is, what's your favorite manure? LOL!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-manure-making-machine
Until next time…
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Oh well, one good thing about gardening is that it's the only activity which people are glad to got lots of poops around. I used to help my mum a lot in her garden, she used chicken dump mixed in sawdust. I'm not sure she knew anything about cold/hot manure. She said the organic manure were far better than tho synthetic fertilizers as the former helps in building the soil the latter will end up loosening the soil over time.
Your Mom knew what she was doing, @lordjames. I'm glad you had the same experience I did.
Thank you. Pretty cool I had some close to nature experience while growing up before I left to the city where everything is synthetic.
Poop is good!...:)...
Make a compost/poo tea with a few buckets. You can keep a working bucket for the tea and then keep doing the dry buckets for storage.
Right! I do the same, I forgot to mention that!
Great fertilizer! My pet rabbit grew the best tasting, largest tomatoes that I've every had.
The rabbit looks cute, I like rabbits that look cute.
this is a very good job @papa-pepper, may you always succeed.
I got so much experience from you @papa-pepper.
Thank you for everything.
Now I know Papa-pepz......A wonderful information that you had posted. I also have rabbits in our home and manure just got wasted when thrown. But I also have a garden that will go together with that rabbit manure.....I will do that Papa-pepz.....Thanks....
good writing sir...you tell right,i love rabbit most
I didn't know that rabbit's poop can be a very good fertilizer. That's awesome. :) The rabbits are going to be your workers now. hehe :) That's cool! :)
Beautiful pic