@jamesholt manure from animals fed with herbicide-treated hay can be problematic in the garden as some herbicides can persist even after composting, so you are right to consider that. Fresh manure, even just pasture droppings, is best left for a year before using, even just in a large pile. Fresh manure can be added to a mixed compost heap and that will be fine after a year too. Some plants that like a poor, free-draining soil don’t like manure, even if well composted, it makes the growth green and floppy and reduces flowering. So I think it’s a case of researching the conditions your particular plants enjoy - or don’t enjoy - and going from there.
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...talking of manure, this came today... not my usual brand but it will do..
..just to add, I understand that you can use fresh manure on roses, keeping it well away from the canes, and that it can help prevention of mildew. If I lived in a rural location away from neighbours, because of the smell, then I wouldn't be afraid to use it fresh but composting is usually recommended otherwise.. I have seen it used fresh in a public rose garden during the off season..
..I got these today from Larch Cottages... slimline conifers or clipped yew, I think are nice with roses and they just fit in.. ..Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire'...
..others I've had are 'Smaragd' and 'Brobecks Tower'.. Smaragd is the quickest growing... Degroot's next and Brobecks the slowest.. I've had a BT for 10 years and it's now 5 feet tall, just right.. they can be pruned back into old wood which is why I like them..well, and they're slim, that's the main consideration for me..
I remember when I visited Burton Agnes, went to sniff a rose and got a big breathfull of fresh manure as they'd just covered all of their beds with it. 😅
I made an impulse purchase this week as I decided I couldn't wait another year to cover my sunny fence: Crown Princess Margareta ordered from Style, hope it's a good one, it wasn't one I ever noticed before. It's going to sit between Lilac Beauty and Rambling Rosie which are starting their 3rd year in the garden.
..very nice rose, 3 good stems... I love impulse purchases, thinking about one or two myself.. January is such a wretched month at best of times and I need a fix..
This came up on a Facebook today - three years ago. It was after I’d finally cleared away the rubble and rubbish left over from our extension, and removed the vast quantities of soil and decking board from the three raised beds that were there when we came. But before I dug the new bed in front of the shed.
So nothing except a stick in the ground near the wall (maiden apple tree) and an old rosemary that we later chucked.
..very nice rose, 3 good stems... I love impulse purchases, thinking about one or two myself.. January is such a wretched month at best of times and I need a fix..
I browsed 3-4 websites, loaded baskets with plants or seeds and then abandoned those reminding myself that first I need to sort out weeds and soil drainage issues. But I do need that aster monch, rudbeckia and osterpomum 🤔
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..just to add, I understand that you can use fresh manure on roses, keeping it well away from the canes, and that it can help prevention of mildew. If I lived in a rural location away from neighbours, because of the smell, then I wouldn't be afraid to use it fresh but composting is usually recommended otherwise.. I have seen it used fresh in a public rose garden during the off season..
..I got these today from Larch Cottages... slimline conifers or clipped yew, I think are nice with roses and they just fit in..
..Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire'...
..others I've had are 'Smaragd' and 'Brobecks Tower'.. Smaragd is the quickest growing... Degroot's next and Brobecks the slowest.. I've had a BT for 10 years and it's now 5 feet tall, just right.. they can be pruned back into old wood which is why I like them..well, and they're slim, that's the main consideration for me..
The whole garden reeked!
Crown Princess Margareta ordered from Style, hope it's a good one, it wasn't one I ever noticed before. It's going to sit between Lilac Beauty and Rambling Rosie which are starting their 3rd year in the garden.
It was after I’d finally cleared away the rubble and rubbish left over from our extension, and removed the vast quantities of soil and decking board from the three raised beds that were there when we came. But before I dug the new bed in front of the shed.
So nothing except a stick in the ground near the wall (maiden apple tree) and an old rosemary that we later chucked.
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