- 09 Apr 2009
If you have liquid manure and dung at your disposal, do not spread it directly on the soil but incorporate it into compost to improve its quality. The compost heap will mature more quickly
if layers of dung are alternated with yarrow or pine needles in its construction. In the first year you can add animal dung and liquid manure to the compost. But in the second year, no new material should be added to the heap; it should merely be turned over to let the air get to it. At the end of the second year you will have valuable compost that is of great importance to the plants. Vegetables that require nitrogen will do better if the compost has bone meal added to it, while legumes like peas and string beans, as well as roots and vegetables that are rich in potassium, grow better with wood ash compost, since wood ash is rich in minerals, including
potassium.
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