> We used to have horses and used the manure to enrich a garden. We
> dropped in the seeds, watered regularly and couldn't keep up with a
> 10x12 little patch! If you can cart some away one or twice a year from
> a stable, you may need nothing else. And it only costs time -- and a
> truck wash.
>

Careful...you need to let it sit and age, at least a bit, like a good
merlot (g). Main issue of aging and regularly spading manure before
using it for fertilizer is that horses eat (shock!) hay, grass, etc.
even weeds. These species (as with some wild flora that depend on deer
to do the same thing) have developed seeds that remain viable after
passing through Dobbin's intestines. Some species (I forget which)
depend on it, and their seeds won't germinate UNLESS they have been
softened up by the digestive juices.

So fresh horse manure can introduce a high weed population to your
garden. Hence the bucolic custom of the manure pile.

But still, yes, bravo. Horseshit - it's not just for usenet any more!

Paul