Hot manure, such as horse manure, should age 6 months to a year before you use it in your vegetable garden. Create a lasagna compost with the manure, compost bin compost and straw.

Things to Do Columnists Showdown: Horse vs. cow manure in the garden Cow manure is recommended for your garden, but you can also use horse manure if it has been composted. Credit: Randee Daddona ...

Luckily, there's Craigslist, which has all manner of free manure postings. The best manures to use in the garden are rabbit, goat, horse, dairy cow and sheep.

Apply about a 2-inch layer of manure over the bed and blend it into the upper 8 inches. It's best to compost horse manure for a few months prior to using it.

And like horse manure, it is fairly low in the three major nutrients. It contains only 1.1 percent nitrogen, 0.9 percent phosphorus and 1.3 percent potassium.

Often when I write about using manure in the garden, I get a lot of questions. Most often, readers want to know why I don't use horse manure. In my opinion, horse manure is not suitable for mulch.

Q: For years I’ve used manure from my horse to fertilize a big garden with ornamentals and vegetables. I was recently told that horse manure can contain herbicide residue not filtered out during ...

Horse manure generally gives you more weeds than cow manure, but it's still one of the best ways to improve and add nutrition to garden beds. Just be sure to wash all of your harvest well before ...

When using rabbit manure as a fertilizer, it’s important to do so responsibly. Applying it to the garden soil can enrich the nutrient content and contribute to healthier plant growth.

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, “No More Poop Coops.” The chicken is the easiest and most productive animal for the small garden farm, especially in terms of handling manure.

Luckily, there's Craigslist, which has all manner of free manure postings. The best manures to use in the garden are rabbit, goat, horse, dairy cow and sheep.