No, but I would if I didn`t have 6 horses. Just make your own. Plastic bin with drain holes, piece of screen to cover holes, add same stuff you would add to your compost bin plus a little dirt add three or 4 boxes of fishing redworms, drill holes in cover of plastic bin and also cover them with screen, put lid on top, keep adding leaves, vegetable trimmings, stale bread or anything organic to your bin and in a few weeks you have castings. Needs to be in a warm spot since they work faster then.
Yes. Worm castings are wonderful. Check the web for info. there is lots of it. And check ebay for used worm farms. Also I can give you the name and phone # of a local worm farm here in Virginia if you want.
That would not be the best way to go for large gardens due to the amount you would need. I would check and find someone that has horses, their manure does not need to be composted, just dry to add to your garden. I have used it alone to start plants in. Rabbit manure is about the same I think or just needs short compost time. Chicken manure has to be composted but can be used more readily like you would make compost tea, then applied with a hose type sprinkler but that is a lot of trouble to do.
Living in the country,we have used lots of manure. Horses right across the fence.If you use most of this manure without composting be prepared for a lot of weeds!It is probably because of the very poor diet these horses eat.Biggest share of forage is weeds. I have been using rabbit poo when I plant daylilies & other perennials.I had a guy who has a daylily nursery tell me that rabbit poo is the best. sNs
Thats right about the grass/weed seed but our pasture is also a hay meadow so we have to keep weeds poisoned several times a year. And I only feed pelleted feed so we get no weeds from that.
