Rabbit Manure Better than Cow Manure for Organic Gardening? and more Q&A

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2. .... I work full time and just looked outside to see that my weeds and grass took over my garden... But my cucumbers are doing great! Oh well, this is what I get for having a demanding job
3. 1. worm compost- castings 2. rabbit manure 3. goat manure these 3 are the best and don't need composting! they can go straight in the garden ! 4. fall leaves are in that department of instant compost! these 4 make your garden explode with harvest!
4. I have a rabbit and save the poop. I put the poo in a trash can, put comfrey in there and egg shells before I add water. I water my garden with that once a week. It seems to be helping- but I would like your recommendation in regards to what I'm doing. Your insight would help because I'm new to gardening and and just a frequent reader.
5. alpaca, llama, or cameloid manure is best; vermiculture is amazing to process it; but with these species you don't need to. No bad bacteria, parasites, etc. in these species that a human could catch.  Plus, these animals are never given hormones, antibiotics, etc; so the manure is safe in that regard.   However, you have to be sure to check if their hay was organicly raised.  If they put nasty stuff on hay it can go through to manure.  I hope my advice helps, I love your vids, but I love manure more.
6. How we keep insects off our plants if we cant use pesticides?
7. woow... hes not shouting any more :D nice...
8. 27:50 Having tried kale from the store and home grown kale: store bought was horrible and bitter, the home grown had an almost buttery flavour. The difference was really amazing.
9. I had 2 rabbits and they were great pets. They also mad a lot of poop. :) I would mix oak leaves, lots of mixed greens and veggies, and loads of decent native soil with the manure. I found a local grocery store that would leave out ALL of there "bad" produce for me so I could have extra treats for my bunnies and compost material(try small stores, Wal-Mart types won't help you). The earthworms loved it after a few years, so I had some worm casting in there too! After it was all composted down, mixed up, it was so black and rich; a little bit went a long way! I had 3 separate bins, just to be sure everything "cooked" down good. Probably not the best for a huge garden, but it worked great for us. BUT I would caution, just like anything, know your PH and don't over-do it. And please don't eat the rabbits....especially after the Kids name them. :-)
10. One thing we do around here in south Alabama is use chicken litter it's mixed with peanut hulls and mixed and allowed to compost break down and burn off the bad bacteria before getting spread on crops another that we use on the bigger farms is "cooked" human "compost" most towns dont send sewage to treatment plants they store it in large ponds then later take the partially broken down feces and mix it with "hot line" the will heat it to 200+ degrees and cook it off so it's safe to use on the crops
11. I use Rabbit manure, but I throw it on the compost heap. You mentioned cardboard slurry and I must admit I use a lot of cardboard in my garden, some in lasagna gardening and some  just  in my compost heap. I leave my compost for about two years. I am sure it isnt the ideal compost process coz I dont tilt it or whatever, so maybe part of it is rotting, but it does well. I throw anything on it: carton, kitchen scraps, eggshells etc.
    I know there are many 'rules' about what you should or not should put on yr compost heap, but I just take it easy and I get great compost
    
    You also mentioned 'humanure'  Well. I did test that last season:
    I made several holes with a  ground core drill, making 6 inch wide holes about 40-50 cm deep.
    Half I filled up, almost to the top with humanure and topped it off with compost, the other half of the holes I  filled  with compost alone. Planted courgettes in it. The humanure courgettes did significantly better.
    
    I may start to use humanure much more, but it is a bit of a process to collect and keep it.
12. Cool video. I've heard many success stories from folks that use rabbit manure. 
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    I wouldn't use top soil. We converted our existing garden into a raised bed garden with 6 beds that are 4 x 20. Having read a lot about compost, we gathered tons of leaves at the local leaf drop off area, and since you need a 3 to 1 ratio of carbon (leaves) to greens (dead plant material), it wasn't hard to produce a nice pile of healthy compost. Nearly all leaves are organic because most people don't spray trees, but be sure there aren't grass clippings mixed in. If you turn the compost pile by hand with a fork, it will break down quicker, just keep it covered with a tarp if you get too much rain. Once the compost is nicely broken down, and the beds were framed out, I bought a couple kiddy pools at Walmart. I dumped a wheel barrow full of compost in the pool, the same amount of peat moss, and another one of vermiculite. You can buy that in bulk online. It makes the soil nice and airy!! Mix it all up with a shovel. We also added composted pig manure and earth worm castings plus rock dust. Because you have 1/3 of it as compost, the bio activity will soon take over in the peat moss. If your beds are on top of grass, put 3 layers of cardboard on top of the grass. We then filled the beds until we had 6 inches of soil. This is the minimum depth, and if you've ever pulled a vegetable out you can see the roots aren't too long, but the plan was to add more soil with the following years compost, and build it up more and more. We have enough board height for a foot of soil. This plan saved us money, and I knew what was in the compost because we produced it. The years after, we didn't need to use any more peat and only a little vermiculite. Start with only a few beds, and gradually add more to see how many you really need and can keep up with. Good luck!!
    
14. $13 shipped for the 11lb (5kg) coir on amazon...best price I've seen online.
15. I love your videos. Have you ever considered putting all your advice into a book? With tabs and sections.
16. As an idea for making green juice that doesn't taste awful, I found out that if I mix spinach and kale in equal amounts (or maybe a bit more spinach than kale), their strong tastes cancel each other out. I used to add lots of fruits to make green juice drinkable, but now I just juice 5 ounces of spinach and 4 ounces of kale with 2 carrots and one big apple. Nothing else, just that! I was surprised it is even easier for me to drink this green juice than water. Theoretically, the oxalic acid of the spinach is expected to prevent the body's absorption of the calcium in the kale. So if you intend to consume kale for its calcium content, it might be good to know that some people say it's better to juice it separately to benefit more from the kale's calcium. But I'm sure it's a lot better to have kale with spinach together than not having them at all, or a lot less. Cheers!
17. Great information as always; thanks for all you do!
18. Congrats on your 20th year eating good! Thanks for sharing
19. That soil at the base of his wall looks alot like the soil I got here at my house, gravel with some clay to fill in the spaces between the rocks. It makes for some hard gardening the first couple years till you get the bigger rocks picked out and enough organic material to keep the soil loosened.
20. I ate a Buttery Jack for breakfast the other day...no comparison to broccoli.  Sooooo good.