Saturday 17 September 2011

Rabbit Manure as Fertilizer


Some people use aged chicken manure as fertilizer for the plants but we don't have many of that available. What little chicken manure that we have out of the 6 chickens in the coop are all being used in the big hill garden to fetilize the coffee plants. We do have rabbit manure and since this is considered as a cold manure, so we are going to use this instead of chicken manure. We applied rabbit manure in some of the raised beds but we do not have enough manure yet to use on all the raised rows. What we did was to dig a hole on the raised beds following the plant spacing where the plants are to be planted and dumped a shovel of rabbit manure in it. We then mixed the rabbit manure with the soil and covered the hole up with 3 inches of soil. We will let these raised beds to rest for a month while waiting for the rainy season to subside a little and then we will start planting.  We are also going to make use of rabbit manure as tea fertilizer to water the plants. It should be interesting to see what will happen with the plant's growth once we use rabbit manure as fertilizer.


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