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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap
Too many grass seeds are passed by horse poop............llama-lizer is better as they have 3 stomachs to fully process seeds.
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My grandfather had a "home garden" behind his house. It was about an acre of veggies. He fed most of the neighborhood with extras.
He started with a field of grass and weeds. Lots of time with a rototiller, and a few truck loads of horse manure and straw from the barns. He built a large compost area, and had two coffin sized worm beds. Grandma put 100% of all leftover food from potato peelings to plate scrapings on top. Overnight the worms ate it all.
One Christmas (1967) he said all he wanted for Christmas was horse manure. So my brother and I shoveled up a friends horse barn and the friend was real happy about that. We found all the horse dumplings in the field where the horse was kept and loaded them on a trailer. Mom had a family friend help us haul it to grandpa's garden.
Dad was in Korea for a 18 months at that time. Remember the Pueblo? Different subject.
Anyway grandpa figured he had hit the lottery. He put the entire load on his compost pile and stirred it up regularly.
In the end the soil in his garden was so rich that he just would throw down a seed and have to jump back!
Yea, mom told me a million times not to exaggerate.
Oklahoma is not a corn growing state. Mostly wheat. This is grandpa's corn patch with Corn "as high as an elephant's eye". I remember going into that field and he would have us pick our own ear right from the stalk, shuck it and throw all the husks in the compost pile, walk into the kitchen and grandma had the water boiling. We could hear the fresh corn squeal as it was dropped in. Best corn possible. One ear was never enough.