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Robert Milne in 'Organic Vegetable Growing' quotes Shirley Hibbard:
"If a given quantity of land sown without manure yields 3 times the seed employed, then the same quantity of land will produce 5 times tge quantity sown when manured with old herbage, putrid grass or leaves, garden stuff etc. 7 times with cow dung, 9 times with pigeon dung, 10 times with horse dung, 12 times with human urine, 12 times with goat dung, 12 times with sheep dung and 14 times with human manure or bullocks' blood."
Shirley was a popular gardening writer in Victorian times, a latter day Bob Flowerdew may be. He wrote of Amateur Gardening all those years ago.
Robert Milne.recommends using urine throughout his book which is also written with school gardens in mind. I thought that adding comfrey would be a good idea and the combination doesn't have too much of an odour. There is a bit of a whiff but it is gone in a very short time.
"If a given quantity of land sown without manure yields 3 times the seed employed, then the same quantity of land will produce 5 times tge quantity sown when manured with old herbage, putrid grass or leaves, garden stuff etc. 7 times with cow dung, 9 times with pigeon dung, 10 times with horse dung, 12 times with human urine, 12 times with goat dung, 12 times with sheep dung and 14 times with human manure or bullocks' blood."
Shirley was a popular gardening writer in Victorian times, a latter day Bob Flowerdew may be. He wrote of Amateur Gardening all those years ago.
Robert Milne.recommends using urine throughout his book which is also written with school gardens in mind. I thought that adding comfrey would be a good idea and the combination doesn't have too much of an odour. There is a bit of a whiff but it is gone in a very short time.
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