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AlanFletcher Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 19 Feb 2015 Posts: 12
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:16 am Post subject: Fertilising |
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Not sure if this is right place for this topic. Recently an elderly man told me about soaking a bag of pigeon droppings in water and then using it to water plants. Was just wondering if anyone else has heard of this and if people use it. What i really would like opinions on is whether its good or bad for the plants.
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Alan Fletcher _________________ Failure lies, not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up |
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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3129 Location: Kildare
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Alan - It seems as though soaking all sorts of material in water will produce useful nutritional products. There's an earlier post about nettle fertiliser (tea) and I can only assume the whole process is merely a variation on the compost theory with maybe one refinement? Whenever I've put stuff in a compost heap, it's soon seething with little red worms (brandlings) but, when I come to dig out the finished product, there's no sign of them, so I presume I've used a lot of my material to generate worms that are no longer around. At least the water principle involves no loss? I recall when I was a child we'd put the soot from the chimney into a container full of water and use that on the garden so maybe there's no end to what you can do. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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AlanFletcher Rank attained: Hazel Tree

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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Well Blowin and Greengage thanks for your replys. Ive been using this for the last week or so to water all my plants in polytunnel and ground. It seems to be working and so far i would advise it. If you can get your hands on a water permeable sack and bag of pigeon droppings from someone in a local pigeon club. I had left it in a black sack to degrade a bit before moving it into the sack hung in the barrel i clect rainwater in.
I am thinking of mixing a bag of pigeon and poultry manure for soaking next but want to research it a bit first but i will post a reply with my findings here.
Thanking You
Alan Fletcher _________________ Failure lies, not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:40 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Alan, quite what the reason is I don't really know but poultry manure in general is said to 'burn' plants if applied when fresh. Leaving it to 'air' or, as we've discussed, putting it in water will presumably take the sting out of it?
You don't say where you are but finding a pigeon club in this part of the world might be a lengthy process. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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AlanFletcher Rank attained: Hazel Tree

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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Im in roscrea Tipperary blowin. My uncle knows a cupl of people who are in a pigeon club.
Alan _________________ Failure lies, not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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When we moved in to our old house in England my dad decided that the old 'shed' foundations at the bottom of the garden would be a good base for a veg plot. We did not know for a while that it used to be the base of a hen house.
For a good few years we had a bumper crop of EVERYTHING! These days I have to make do with donkey poo. |
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kindredspirit Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Posts: 2300 Location: Mid-west.
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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I've been offered a shed load of pigeon poo but I haven't taken up the offer yet because a few years ago a man down the road, who kept pigeons, died from Pigeon Poo Disease. I'd need a good bit of space first as well because this guy, who offered it to me, has an awful lot of it from his flock. (He must feed them too well) I presume it would acidify earth and might be suitable to make up soil for rhododendrons. _________________ .
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have bats but their droppings are miniscule so it would take quite a few months worth to make anything usable and worthwhile. Actually, just thinking about that, they only eat insects so where is the plant nutrition in that?
@ Alan. Is that Roscrea in Tipp or Offaly? Wrong side of the boundary? Just thinking how your Cistercian College won the Leinster schools rugby last week. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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AlanFletcher Rank attained: Hazel Tree

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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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It would take a while to collect bat droppings alriggt. Roscrea is north tipp. I cudnt tell u tagwex i dont follow rugby. I just heard sumthing about them winning something. Thought it was hurling though 😛 ha shows how much attention i pay to it all _________________ Failure lies, not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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It was indeed rugby. The college is just over the Offaly border which makes them eligible to play in Leinster but the postal address is Roscrea, Tipperary. Hence the confusion. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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