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    Forum: Soil and CompostingReplies: 11, Views: 129
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    sm4657
    Marshalltown, IA (Zone 5a)

    April 4, 2011 10:08 AM

    Post #8471224

    I live on an acreage with 5 quarter horses...
    In the winter time, they are stalled quite a bit with pine sawdust. Their stalls are picked 2 x a day.

    Out back, we pile the manure-mixed sawdust. Some times there is fresher manure (maybe 6 months old).

    This spring (and also last fall), we took out what we thought was good composted manure...it was pretty black with a few small manure "balls". Hubby took the tractor and scooped up a loader full and dumped it on our new lily garden. And then, tilled it in with so-so already existing soil.

    Can this be too much manure? It was probably 1' deep, and then tilled...

    I hope to plant daylilies this spring in the garden...will it burn the daylilies?

    Thanks

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