Hiding your manure pile!See this

[henney penny]

This is my manure pile,I gave the chcikens pumpkins last fall and the seeds started growing a few weeks ago,don`t know if I`ll get any pumpkins as its quite late in the season here, there is a tomatoe plant and some wild onions in there two.Some of the leaves on the pumpkins is three feet acoss and the flowers are huge.Now next year I will remember this and plant some pumpkins early in the pile,but it sure looks better than that old pile of chicken poo. LOL

 

[MIKE555444]

Very Cool!

 

[ginbart]

I wonder if it would work with horse manure? I hope you get some pumpkins this year.

 

[stubbornhill]

Ayup! Looks like a hill of pumpkins.

I bet you will get a pumpkin or two. We have a friend here in Maine that grows and sells pumpkins commercially. He plants very late on purpose and your plants look to be roughly the size of his. Very exciting. The circle of life - soon, you will have more pumpkins to give to your chickens, more chicken manure, more piles, more pumpkins......

 

[ailurophile23]

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It sure does! Compost piles of all sorts are terrific for growing pumpkins (and many other plants). You can grow them earlier and later in the season since the compost generates heat. Some folks even use composting horse manure as a thick base to help heat cold frames for growing produce over the winter.

 

[Ole rooster]

Now I know how I'm going to plant muskmellons. Pretty neat.

 

[kinsey228]

That's a really good idea.

 

[teach1rusl]

Next year give them a little coaching and see if they can plant the seeds in rows...lol.

 

[7L Farm]

Wow, so thats what green grass looks like. Everything here is burned up.

 

[inohio]

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Things that I've had work great in a manure pile (the pile was made in the fall and planted in the spring): cucumbers (straight 8 grow to almost 15 inches if you let them); squashes; corn, strawberries LOVE manure piles; potatoes (mounded upward w/clean straw).