{"id":5089,"date":"2007-11-17T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/17\/is-it-manure-or-is-it-garden-gold\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T21:10:10","slug":"is-it-manure-or-is-it-garden-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/17\/is-it-manure-or-is-it-garden-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it manure, or is it garden gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got our goat pens cleaned down to gravel earlier this fall, after not being cleaned out since a year ago. But our donkey pen\/old birthing pen\/buck pen hadn’t been cleaned out yet and there was this mountain on the east end. It’s been snowing and getting colder at night; down to the teens. We know that pretty soon even the rotted manure in the barn will freeze and we’ll all be stuck with it all winter. Not a nice thought.<\/p>\n

But having David in school all day, then with sports and activities, he is not able to help much. And Mom, being 91 and in a wheelchair, requires me inside most of the day; I can’t leave her alone for over 15 minutes, so I’m back and forth, back and forth on my bad knee.<\/p>\n

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Last night I had this great idea. We have a light in the goat\/donkey barn, so maybe after Mom is in bed, I could go out and shovel manure. It’s a little wierd hauling manure by ATV light, but hey, it’s working! I hauled three loads out last night and another two tonight, after having David to help me a little before that.<\/p>\n

The mountain is down, nearly to gravel and best yet, the manure is pretty nicely spread on the garden. We haul it in a garden trailer that has a removable tailgate and dumps. So I drive it out onto the section I’m going to spread manure on, remove the tailgate and pull the dump lever. The I hop on the ATV and give it a sudden start, which initiates the manure falling out onto the ground. With luck, it continues spreading pretty evenly until it’s empty.<\/p>\n

The manure is mostly well rotted bedding\/manure mixed and will be a great addition to our new garden. (Remember how I had two foot high corn because of lack of fertility on one side?) That won’t happen again!<\/p>\n

So if you’re flying over and see an erratic light moving about in our garden at night, it’s not drug runners. It’s just me spreading manure when I can. Sort of the reverse of “make hay while the sun shines…..”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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