So they built beds of stable manure and placed frames on top.

First points out that if you look at a stack of stable manure on a cold day, you see steam coming off it.

In earlier days when there were more horses about there was a lot more stable manure.

But you would have to add fertiliser, artificial or cow manure or stable manure.

Katina seized a pitchfork and began shift a pile of stable manure as the three men tumbled from the Buick.

Ciesrt powdered some limestone, and Ryalth had a cartload of stable manure delivered last fall.

A local farm has offered bags of stable manure that is about 15 months old and looks fairly dry, strawy and crumbly.

With practised twists of his fork the gardener spread a small pile of stable manure around the strawberry plants.

Most growers, as Frank did, unloaded everything off the truck and back-loaded stable manure, loaded boxes etc on again."

That's the return you give me for lifting you out of the stable manure to the condition of a lady, and saving your life to boot.

Effect of sterilized and unsterilized stable manure and compost on the efficiency of VA mycorrhiza.

All of which leads quickly on to compost, which is the gift that the soil will appreciate most, along with well-rotted farmyard or stable manure, and which we can never have enough of.

As winter set in, another coating of earth was put upon it, with perhaps an overcoat of coarse, dry stable manure, and the precious pile was left in silence and darkness till spring.

Organic manuring both with stable manure or Biodynamic compost lowered nitrate nitrogen in spinach by 51-99% below that of NPK, giving an average 93% reduction over three crops in plot trials using two types of soil (Schuphan, 1974).

There are many developments to come – a water garden, more canyons to be planted near the nursery, and the continuation of his Garden House experiments with self-seeding (though at the moment, maintenance constraints mean woodchip and stable manure mulches have to be used to prevent seed germination).