Horse Manure - Pros And Cons

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Horse manure is one of the most useful organic fertilizers, which is applied with equal success to garden beds and flower beds. However, not all summer residents know exactly what kind of benefit horse manure can bring in a summer cottage, but there are really a lot of benefits from it! So why can this simple and completely free fertilizer be useful to a modern summer resident?

Advantages

Horse breeding waste includes an impressive amount of organic matter and is a fairly effective concentrate of phosphates, nitrogen compounds and such useful minerals as calcium with potassium. And thanks to such a rich composition, horse manure is able not only to significantly increase the nutritional value and fertility of the soil, but also to activate the growth of a wide variety of crops! With the help of this substance, it will not be difficult to noticeably increase the yield of various garden and vegetable garden crops. In addition, horse manure perfectly helps to make plants much more hardy, both in relation to environmental conditions and in relation to various infections and pests. And if you mix horse manure with sawdust, it will bring even more benefits!

Horse manure is lighter than cow manure, therefore, it decomposes and decays much faster. And, what is especially pleasant, it is absolutely not susceptible to infection by all kinds of pathogenic microorganisms! And this product of horse life is endowed with the ability to save heat for as long as six to eight weeks, cooling very slowly and gradually.

Also, horse humus perfectly loosens soils, saturates them with carbon dioxide, is a valuable supplier of a wide variety of nutrient compounds, ensures proper air and water circulation and actively resists soil acidification.

Flaws

Horse manure also has certain disadvantages: firstly, it is not available to every summer resident, secondly, horse manure has a too sharp and very nasty smell, and, thirdly, many do not like the need to clearly dose and dilute this fertilizer. Opponents of the use of horse manure believe that it will be much more convenient to purchase high-quality mineral fertilizers in the store and periodically pamper growing crops with them.

What kind of manure will be the best?

Horse manure can have a wide variety of forms: it can be fresh, semi-rotten or rotted, as well as in the form of humus, liquid solution or granules. At the same time, fresh horse manure is considered the best and most useful option. However, at the same time, it is important to take into account that such manure is endowed with the ability to heat up quite strongly, which in turn can easily destroy vegetation, respectively, it is necessary to use fresh horse manure with some degree of caution. It is best to resort to his help in the fall, when the garden beds have already been dug up - during the winter all the substances contained in such manure will have time to completely decompose, and in this case there is no need to talk about any harm to plants. Moreover, with the onset of spring, plants will be able to receive all the elements necessary for their full growth in an easily accessible form!

And in spring, fresh horse manure is often used as biofuel in greenhouses with greenhouses - it heats up the beds with zucchini and early cucumbers especially well!

It is quite permissible to "mix" horse manure with a wide variety of other organic waste. With peat, he generally creates an ideal tandem! Horse manure has proven itself just as good in combination with well-chopped straw, in addition, it goes well with fallen leaves, sawdust or grass. And many summer residents are very willing to dilute fresh horse manure with water, getting a useful and effective liquid fertilizer!