Why Horse Manure Works 

You summed it up.Dont worry about it. I.d rather take my chances with the food I grow in horse manure before I would buy anything from the supermarket.I do however add it to my compost pile to use next year and besides My worms love it thats good enough for me.Thanks for uploading

I have used horse manure for over 20 yrs. I have a couple horses and it works Great. Yes there may be some weeds. Horses do it grass, hay etc. Don't give the nay sayers a second thought.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I have 8 horses and have never had a problem using manure. Offered to share some one time, and the person declined because I had used Ivermectin a year ago. My beds rich - still have lots of worms!

I always tell my garden friends about your channel. Our family appreciates your shared knowledge. My garden success is do to videos like yours.

I love the way you think. A lot of people worry so much but this stuff. If you have the money and time to pay for top of the line compost or manure go for it. I get my stuff for free and I have fun doing it. I get cow manure from a feed lot. I don’t ask what hay or whatever it is that they feed them. My grass and garden looks amazing (and I live in Texas). If your worried, compost it for a while and mature will sort it out. Have fun is the main thing.

I use horse manure from the local pony club all the time. They sell it in old grain/feed sacks for $2 a bag. I usually run it through my worm farm first before using. Recently i half filled a large plastic garbage bin with soil i want to rejuvenate. Its good soil that has been used to grow a plant, but still has organic matter, vermiculite, coco coir, sand etc. Its got great drainage and consistency, and i figure why throw it out after one use. I filled the next quarter with some old dried leaves, then the remaining quarter with fresh horse manure (on top). Then i dump in a load of worms, and maybe some cooked oats or rice to get the worms off to a good start. Hopefully the manure will help quickly break down the leaves, and the worms will consume everything and burrow through the soil to leave their castings. After 4 or 5 months it should all be ready to go back into my plant containers. (I rent so i grow in large pots rather than garden beds).

8:20 I can’t remember which university did the research but deworming treatment only stays in the horse for 4 days. After that it’s a trace amount and won’t hurt the soil. I have 4 horses that creat a massive amount of manure that I use to feed my 28ft composting worm bin. It doesn’t hurt my worm at all. 👍🏼

Started watching your stuff a couple months ago and was impressed with your common sense approach to everything I've watch from you. Thx!

Thanks for the update Ihoping to pick up some horse manure this week and now I know what to ask the owner. I'm still going to use my rabbit manure but they don't make as much as a horse would.

I don't mind a few weeds, grass seeds... but with horse manure do beware of Aminopyralid which will gnarl certain crops!! I have some gnarled tomatoes. However I've heard it's fine for grass and I have a lawn which is purely ornamental and I will decant the soil onto the lawn and then when i clip it i will dispose of the clippings.

I've been using free horse manure for new years, including pepper plants in fresh manure- no problem. I always use weed barrier or lb Panda po e fabric to cover beds. This helps to prevent the maple helicopters from ge5mibating.

Legendary! More common sense. There’s a lot of people out there that spend too much time worrying and analysing. Good advice, and one of my mantras; “get on with it and deal with it”.

Unfortunately, I got my horse manure only in February. I put it on my lawn with cardboard underneath. The grass died perfectly so did my neighbours ivy along the property line (not too sorry about that). End of March I started planting seedlings into the manure, onions, cabbages, lattuce, I also seeded carrots and put potatoes in. In May I added tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins. The potatoes do great (at least the green), the tomatoes are not great but ok. Everything else basically does not grow at all. Most seedlings have died, meanwhile. The carrots never came up (not a single one). With the cabbages I noticed that they turned color towards violet (it's not red cabbage). They looked sickly. The plants don't look like aminopyralid poisoning, otherwise the tomatoes and potatoes would likely have stopped growing as well. Have you ever experienced anything like that before? I suspect it is ammonia poisoning, maybe killing the roots, since the manure was too fresh. The manure has very little straw or wood chips in it. It's basically just the poop. But it's not only my seedlings dying. I have noticed that very little weed is growing and some of the weeds, even grass, also turn color towards violet. This is another indication that it is not aminopyralid, otherwise the grass would be fine. So your suggestion putting the manure down in the fall is certainly important. I suspect that it does not need to break down so much but rather gas out, which probably also continues in the cold winter months. I'm very interested to see how things grow next year. So far I'm very disappointed with my horse manure experiment. Any new manure I get, will first go onto a compost pile for ageing. Thanks for making interesting videos.

Horse manure helps heat up the compost heap, and then it mixes in the compost as a green and a brown mix.

Thanks Greg for the video. We run a small horse stable and I started gardes with haf rotted manure 2 years ago. I put a 40 cm layer on weedy pasture. It's quite easy to control weeds, even bindweed seems to die off after a while. As you say tomatoes are a great first crop. Also Melons did really well and tasted fantastic. You can even walk on the beds so no extra paths or framing are required. I don't use any other mulch than manure, 5 cm per year. In some areas there are loads of worms in the soil, so I'm sure it will improve even more.

Luckily for myself I have many animals, I have a pony, a rabbit and we have a pig. I throw all there manure into one pile then in the fall add it to my garden. I don't worry about how much of which one I am using, I have been doing it for year and it all works out too.

Great video! Where I am in UK the only manure we can get for free or low cost is horse manure! Love your rational approach.

We de-worm our horses every time they get new shoes. Every six weeks. We seldom use antibiotics, but it is as you say, as needed. We have competition horses so our hay is sprayed and it works just fine. Ive used it as mulch as long as I can remember. Haven’t used manure because I keep hearing not to, but I’m gonna do one bed the way you have. Love knows I have tons of manure.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO. HORSE MANURE IS WHAT I USE. ADDING IT AGAIN THIS FALL.

Greg, this is very helpful, thank you. We get a lot of fresh manure from a local stable, but I often have doubts about how we use it.

Well I really enjoy your videos your a great gardening buddy

Another great video, I look forward to new ideas I can use in my garden.

Greg, another great video. I jotted down a couple of things learned, into my gardening journal. Thank you, much appreciated.😉

Love the power of horse manure ❤️

Just saw this video which answered all the questions I asked you a few days ago about horse manure lol. Sorry still trying to get caught up on all ur great videos. Also, recommending to friends and family. Keep them coming!

I would love to give away some of my horse manure! I use it in my compost, gardens and pasture and still have more than I can use!

Great encouragement Greg! Love horse manure!!

I agree with everything you say. Nice presentation. But one thing I AM concerned about is selective herbicides because I’ve read and seen videos of how the manure wrecked their crop. Herbicides are nasty and can take few years to break down. I agree with not living in fear but it’s something that we all need to be concerned with so we can spread awareness, beautiful resources like manure must stay clean from those destructive chemicals and people (producers, farmers, animal owners...) need to know about it. I wonder if anyone has anything to add to this topic? 👍

I have tons of worms in my 6 month old pile of horse manure. It’s really good for growing tomatoes

You reminded me of a short story by Mark Twain, The Risk of Laying in Bed.If you’ve not read it, I think you would get a few chuckles from it!

I adopted a donkey from someone who died in my neighborhood a couple years back. I started a new garden this fall with just cleaning out her stable and what i already put aside. Put cardboard over it and topped with leafmold and am planning to plant my pumpkins there this summer. Dont see any problem with it indeed

Lol.. working class love and own horses too. It's like a disease. Or in your soul. I love my 2 equine. I work my butt off to keep them in my yard but hey..lots of free excellent soil for my newer hobby: growing my own food.

I use horse manure because I have a horse. Its worked great for building my crappy clay soil. One thing I do worry about is herbicide in the hay I'm feeding. Supposedly hay farmers might use a broad leaf herbicide that can last a few years. I don't think I"m going to be finding organic hay down at the local Whole Foods anytime soon so I guess I'm stuck with it. I really haven't had any problems with it but now every time I fail with a veggie I'm wondering if that was the reason.

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Can you supplement with all purpose fertilizer and kelp meal for added trace minerals and some dolomite lime to keep the pH in check and for added calcium and magnesium

Potatoes are fine in fresh. Manure especially horses manure

When you see worms in the horse manure piles you know your safe....

i think the only thing you might have to worry about would be herbicides that the horses eat from some hay or fields

Horses get little or no antibiotics very clean manure check Charles dowding nodig uk English version of routh stout uses every thing in compost it works . Ireland calling

Just watch what type of bedding might be mixed in. Straw is fine but wood shavings may cause some nutrient draw down as it takes a long time to decompose. I have a horse and clean his pasture every day...bonus! I don't use any bedding as he is never locked in a stall but wood shavings are very popular here.

Walnut leaves can inhibit other plants growth. Not forever and if it’s not the only leaves you use not much. Remember , the earth can heal itself, if you don’t do bad things to it all the time. On the that note, I still have a bind weed infestation from horse manure applied about ten years ago. Anyone have a good way to get rid of it?

Goutweed is very nutritious. It isn't called goutweed for nothing. It can also be made to taste good with the right ingredients. I just harvested a bunch of it from a friend's house - free food with no effort except to harvest and prepare it. I used to get mushroom/horse compost in the Valley, but alas, they closed.

very timely. was wondering if I can plant garlic in my horse heavy bed this fall. thanks :)

Great ! Thanks

There are increasing concerns about chemical weedkiller residues (amino pyralids) showing up in horse manure (via the hay) and also in bagged compost. Do you have any concerns about this? Apparently these residues survive the composting process and have a bad effect on anything growing in the contaminated compost. - Chris Johnson, The Lincolnshire Bucketeer.

Have you ever heard of aminopyralid weedkiller 2,4D? Passes through the horse/animal. Affects night shade plants. You definitely don’t want it.

Awesome video

I used horse manure once 14 years ago. And i have pig weed and chick weed in my garden now. i've tryed to torch and hoe them but they just come back. I put my chicken on the garden in an tractor but it still comes back.

i have a pile of 2 year horse manure which has been covered with a tarp. Does it still have any value to use in the garden?

The fear I have about horse manure is if they grazed on pasture that was sprayed with broad leaf herbicides. Tat can remain for a few years in the manure and has been reported to seriously damage an vegetables grown. David The Good will not use it now, after killing his and a friend whom he gave manure to also, unless he really knows what the horses ate.

How can you tell that its composted? I bought some they said it was 2 yrs old and ready to use but how do I know it dont smell and it does have some clay in it and rocks they say comes from when they turn it with the tractor scoop thing

hey guys what would happen if someone used the sea cucumber DNA to fill in the gaps of all of there genomes

hope you are not sickly.....been watching the channel and you seem sick? maybe I am just listening wrong, I hope?

Why does he sound like hes gonna break down crying??