| If you love growing great tasting vegetables in your | | | | always buy it at your local home or garden center. |
| home vegetable garden then by now you should know | | | | Now that you have your manure you need to |
| that in order to maintain that yearly success your soil | | | | understand that the fresher the manure the longer you |
| needs to be rich in nutrients. There are a number of | | | | need to let it sit in your home vegetable garden's soil |
| ways you can add these nutrients to your soil, from | | | | before you plant your seeds. A good rule of thumb is |
| decayed organic material, to your food scraps to a | | | | to use the manure in the autumn months giving the |
| variety of chemicals. One of the best ways is to add | | | | soil's underlying ecosystem plenty of time to feed on it |
| manure. Certain manures are nothing more than | | | | so the nutrients can be released. |
| organic matter rich in nutrients waiting for them to be | | | | With your manure added to your soil, now is the time |
| released. When you work manure into your soil you | | | | that you work it in. You can use a pitchfork, garden |
| provide a food source for your soil's ecosystem to | | | | tiller, garden ho, you name it. The tool you choose is |
| feed on. In turn that ecosystem releases the nutrients | | | | completely up to you. I use a pitchfork since my |
| from the manure that your plants need to grow and | | | | garden is a size I can handle within reasonable physical |
| thrive. Here is how you can add manure to your home | | | | limits. If you have a very large garden, you may want |
| vegetable garden. | | | | to consider buying or renting a tiller. |
| It goes without saying that the first step in this process | | | | Now that the manure is worked into the soil, wait until a |
| is to actually obtain the manure. There are a number | | | | week or two prior to the following season's planting |
| of varieties of manure to choose from such as | | | | dates for this next step. Using your tool of choice, |
| chicken, cow, horse and green manures such as | | | | work the soil again so that you are mixing in the |
| alfalfa, winter rye and buckwheat. Never use human, | | | | broken down manure. This helps spread the nutrients |
| dog or cat manure in your garden. The first place to | | | | around. Your seeds are now ready to plant. |
| look for manure is the free website Craigslist. Go to | | | | In some cases spreading manure can be a messy |
| the farm and garden section in your area and search | | | | (and smelly) job, but the benefits for a home vegetable |
| on manure. You'll be surprised how many farmers, | | | | garden can be tremendous. Follow this every year and |
| horse breeders and so on will just give it to you for | | | | you will have great soil for your fruits and vegetables |
| free. If you are unable to find free manure you can | | | | in no time. |