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Manure Pumps Up Your Pumpkin Patch
We highly recommend you get to know your local farmer. Every experienced gardener knows that manure is an essential ingredient to a prize winning pumpkin patch. Sure, you can grow nice pumpkins with manure. But, nothing pumps up your garden soil, like a big pile of well rotted horse or cow manure. Cow manure is considered to provide the best fertilizer and micro-nutrient value. However, it is sloppy and messy. Most gardeners find it difficult to handle and transport. That's why horse manure, with more straw and a drier in composition, is the most popular home garden manure. If you don't have ready access to horse or cow manure, other manures work well. This includes: Pig, sheep, chicken, turkey, and just about any manure. You can use raw (hot) manure in the Fall. Spread it across your pumpkin patch,and work it in with your tiller. It will decompose over winter. In the spring, only well rotted(decomposed) manure should be used. Raw manures can burn your plant's roots. A few weeks after it has been in your garden, test your soil pH. Manures are acidic, can alter the pH. See soil pH
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