Don’t Blindly Trust Manure, Hay, or Compost!

Reader Contribution by David Goodman
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There’s a huge problem destroying gardens in the US.

For those that aren’t familiar with the very high risk associated with putting manure or purchased compost in your gardens, you NEED to read this post. If you read me here or at TheSurvivalGardener.com, you may have heard me tell this story before—but I’m telling it again because it needs to be told. I don’t want anyone to make the same mistake I made.

About five years ago, I dropped a load of cow manure onto my property and promptly spread it around many of my fruit trees and berry bushes and through my garden beds. Within a couple of weeks, the plants were twisting into obscene fractals. Eventually, most of them died. It took me a while to figure out what was going on and when I did pin it down, I’d already lost about $1000 worth of plants. Mulberry trees were stunted, blackberries were killed, tomatoes were wrecked… it was a mess.

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