RE: [gardeners] Lurkers come out
Seyfried,Alice (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:54:53 -0400
I'm not sure if these llamas are in a barn or not. I've been planning on
getting a bunch more mulch sometime in the next few weeks, so I will
just get a few more bags for this bed.
Thanks!
Alice
seyfried@oclc.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry King [SMTP:taeking@televar.com]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 1997 10:50 AM
To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
Subject: Re: [gardeners] Lurkers come out
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:25:16 -0400, Seyfried,Alice wrote:
>
>The garden is a square island situated on the diagonal in my
back yard.
>It receives a good many hours of sun per day, so we're going to
make it
>a vegetable garden in the spring. Hubby is going to get a load
of llama
>manure this week from a friend near by. We'll till that in and
let it
>sit for the winter. Is llama manure good stuff? We also plan
on
>tilling all of our falled leaves into the bed this fall. Should
we add
>some general fertilizer, also?
Yes Llama manure is good stuff, much like sheep but it tends not
to be mixed
with bedding unless they are stalled in a barn. Llamas are very
tidy creatures
and will onl void in a particular potty corner which the whole
herd uses but
would never eat or sleep in. After you till in all your good
stuff I would cover
it with a mulch to protect your worms and prevent any early
weeds from
sprouting. I've been *so* impressed with the soil I've been
digging my
potatoes out of that I'm totally sold on mulch! The temps here
have been down
to 23F and there are still worms in the soil around the potatoes
because of the
mulch keeping them warm and well fed.
When I finish digging the last 2 rows of potatoes today I'm
planning on raking
the area level, adding a little more 10-10-10 fertilizer,
perhaps a little more
manure and covering the whole patch with cardboard and spoiled
hay. Next
spring I'll move my strawberries to this spot.
Terry King North Central Eastern Washington
taeking@televar.com USDA zone 4, Sunset Zone 1