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In Today’s article we will look into 5 Ultimate Tips on Cow manure, Gardening ideas, and hacks on how to use cow dung for plants or any animal manure for that matter. Questions like: Can I use fresh cow dung on my plants and few useful gardening hacks on using fresh cow dung as fertilizer, sun-dried or dehydrated cow dung for plants, and more.
The Benefits of Cow Manure as an Organic Fertilizer
We all know that cow dung is one of the best organic natural fertilizers for plants. Cow manure is packed with quality major and minor nutrients required for plant growth that is NPK – nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium, and other trace elements. Roughly, the NPK value of decomposed cow dung is NPK – 3:2:1.
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5 Interesting and Useful Questions on the Use of Cow Dung, Horse Dung, or Any Animal Manure
Can We Use Fresh Cow Poop on Plants?
This is the most important and commonly asked question on cow dung. Cow dung can be either:
- Fresh dung,
- Sun-dried and dehydrated dung,
- Aged or partially decomposed dung, and
- Completely decomposed manure which is commercially sold by many companies.
We will discuss these, one by one, and by the end of the video, you will know which is best for your plants!
Fresh cow poop should never be applied to your plants because it not only stinks but contains high levels of ammonia and salts which can burn your plants. It also contains harmful microorganisms like E. coli which are harmful to plants and humans. Plus, it also contains weed seeds which can produce a lot of weeds or unwanted plants in your garden.
If you have fresh cow dung, you can use it in many ways and follow a few simple hacks.
Convert Fresh Cow Poop to Aged Cow-Dung
Yes, the next better option to use is aged dung at least 6 months old. A simple hack is just to dig a hole in your garden, or if you do container gardening, take a large container with garden soil and dig a hole at least 4 to 6 inches deep, pour in the fresh cow dung, and cover it with garden soil. Leave it to age for at least 6 months.
Another Simple Garden Hack For Using Fresh Animal Manure
Dig a hole between two plants and bury fresh dung at least 4-6 inches deep, ensuring it is not in direct contact with roots. This way, the manure becomes a gradual fertilizer around the plant and is not in “direct” contact with the roots to burn the plants. The only drawback of this hack is it cannot be used in container gardening unless it’s a large container. And one more thing: you can also use sun-dried cow dung for this hack. We will talk about this next.
Dehydrated Cow-Dung
This in simple terms means dehydration – meaning removal of water from it. This is done in two ways – the ‘Desi’ method is just sun-drying it for a few days and dehydrating it. This process of dehydration, especially the machine-processed method which uses heat to dehydrate, reduces the harmful microbes and also ammonia and salt content to a certain extent. This dehydrated cow dung is lightweight and can be used on most plants. But use it in smaller amounts or better avoid it for young plants and seedlings.
Composted or Fully Decomposed Cow Manure
If you drop the dung into the process of composting, the final product you get is the best and safest organic fertilizer for your plants. When you compost this fresh poop, you get several benefits, the harmful ammonia is eliminated, weed seeds in the soil are destroyed, and it also makes your soil well-draining and well-aerated plus its moisture-holding capacity is greatly improved. The only problem is it’s a bit expensive, especially from a reliable company. This type of manure is the safest and best option for plants and can be applied either by mixing with potting soil in about 20 to 30 percent proportion or it can also be applied once a month on the top soil after raking or tilling the soil.
You can also read a detailed article on Goat Dung and using fresh goat poop as manure.
Please watch the video below demonstrating the various tricks on cow manure compost in farming.
Last update on 2024-12-05 / Affiliate links / Images from Amazon Product Advertising API
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