You can use sheep manure to make compost tea, any animal manure except that of dogs and cats is acceptable, and then once the tea is made put the manure in your compost pile mixed 3 to 1 with vegetative waste.

Thank you! I would just put this in my beds, but I am really worried about the weed seeds. So the tea and the compost is a great idea!

Jenny P

No! Stop! This is toxic stuff! Don't use it! Dispose of it immediately and safely -- by mailing it to me!

:-)

But seriously, if I were you, I would put it on the flower bed and just put some mulch over the top of it, if I were worried about weed seeds.

LOL! So sorry Alfie! I am KEEPING it! The cool part is, if I like this, my friend (who's brother raises sheep) says there is TONS of it! And if I want more all I have to do is go get it.

Jenny P

Sheep digest seeds very well, and if there are weeds in your bucket of stuff, they would have blown in with the wind or been there with the bedding straw. Around here, there are occasional fisticuffs between gardeners when its time to shovel out the sheep barns in the spring - bribes, midnight raids, and lots of accusatory letters to the editor. Prime garden stuff, is sheep manure. I'd go for it.

Sheep have four stomachs, and by the time the weed and grass seeds go through all of them, there isn't much viable seed left.

From Sheep 101: "The rumen is also a large fermentation vat. It contains billions of micro-organisms, including bacteria and protozoa, which allow ruminants to digest fibrous feeds such as grass, hay, and silage that other animals cannot efficienty utilize."

See? The sheep do all the work and your plants get the benefits.

NOW ask your friend why he/she only gave you a 5-gallon bucket of this gold, when they own the mine!

Sue

LOL Sue! Well her brother who has the sheep lives 50 miles away, between me and her. I did her a favor and she gave me all she had left, the 5 gallon bucket! But she did say I could go get all I want! I might have to talk sweetly to my DH and go for a drive, pulling the pick up box trailer one day.

Thanks
Jenny P