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How to grow pea shoots for many harvests off a small area: multisow, interplant, many picks
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2017
- The methods I show for bigger, earlier harvests include to choose a vigorous variety, raise plants undercover, multisown, interplant between other veg if you have no space available, use fleece/row cover and how you can harvest off the same plant over two months. Filmed at Homeacres UK zone 8/9, February to April 2017 by www.edowding.net and see my website for more details on growing great veg www.charlesdowding.co.uk
The best UK gardener instructor online on all your well edited videos by your son. Thank you so much.
Thanks for your appreciation, and I shall pass this on to him
How can I be nearly 50 and not know that you can eat pea shoots. I am gonna run out to the garden and eat one now. Thanks for showing us.
@Furn333 Sure, let's blame the fact that people didn't talk about pea shoots on some nefarious agenda. Just like chickweed, goutweed, mooli, pomelo, or the millions of other food types out there.
Alternatively, you can simply accept that, as sad as it is, not everyone is that creative to go out and try new dishes, preferring to stick with what they know. Neophobia is a much more plausible explanation than subversion, especially since said explanation ties in well with knowing what "staple food" means.
Whether about pea shoots or anything else -- if you are making claims of subversion, then you have no business expecting others to follow without measurements and a logical theory tying them in with the warranted accusation, since small but insufficient proof of an agenda does not warrant conclusion of an agenda.
@@corvespid4925 Nice flexing of your vocabulary and concept organisation. It’s a shame you’ve extrapolated them comment in quite a weird and unrelated direction. Keep practicing. You’ll get it eventually. In the meantime, maybe you’ll be more at home on the dark web.
I love the last scene where we see the "Charles Dowding Salad Spinner" in action! 💖
Thanks Barbara, it does a great job 😀
Beautiful and relaxing watching you harvest the Alderman pea shoots with the birds all singing.
Stress, now all gone. Thanks again to the beautiful bird songs and Charles voice 😌
This looks like a wonderful way to grow some greens for someone with a black thumb who has trouble keeping plants alive to too long! I have some radish greens going right now on my windowsill. Looks like they need some pea friends.
Thank you for showing this whole process, including how you washed and drained it all. Very helpful info. 🌱
I can't stop watching your videos, here in South Africa data is expensive but I just can't stop. Thanks for your hard work, I'm learning a lot and have started implementing your advice. I have a heavily weedy garden that I will be working but by bit to smother the weeds.
Thanks for your appreciation Nothando, and sorry your data is expensive.
I really liked watching the harvest process you do for the commercial harvest! Always interesting to see how people prep their food for the market.
I have never heard of eating pea shoots. I am so excited to learn of this early Spring crop!!
Fantastic! I always love to hear the birds in your garden and now I want to grow peas for shoots😀
aww i love this :-D in china its called dou miew - we cook it lightly with a lot of garlic. It's delicious! I miss it so much since coming here to UK 13 years ago. I'm going to try next Feb and start early for a big crop of it to eat!!!! Thank you for making this video!
That is wonderful Lee and what a good idea to add lots of garlic, just my taste!
After reading the old book "Farmers of Forty Centuries" where they were mentioned I tried the tips of my spring pea crop and discovered that they are better than the peas themselves! Here where we don't use fresh manure to grow them they are a great replacement for lettuce on a sandwich too! But the stir fry wi garlic is a favorite and you might try tender sweet potato shoots cooked similarly.
Nice to hear.
Yes that is a great book, wish it were better known, it's as relevant as ever.
I always wondered what the person who used to steal my pea shoots was doing with them. Now I have some idea how they may have ended up.
@@marshwetland3808 Lol.
Lovely compost. I'm in the uk and it's good that you've mention zones for those outside. Thank you.
I am bedfast and watch these videos day and night. So soothing! So instructional! I feel like I am here in the garden. Home is Bainbridge Island in Washington State, Zone 8b 47° N in Puget Sound, across from Seattle. We rarely get snow. My daydreams are of wild things! (p.s. When you've been bending over, *my* back hurts.)
Sorry to hear that Susa, may you recover, glad the videos help
I'm sow excited!!!! I've just sow a module and will plant them out in mid march and cover for a harvest in mid april in the allotment. fingers cross!! gleeeeeeeeee
Thank you Charles and the team for this informative video!
Thank you for this and your other "how to grow" videos. I have learned so much from each of them about things to try to make this garden season my best yet! Happy Gardening! Catherine
Great, set the bar high and amaze yourself!
Man gardening keeps you fit! Love the videos!
Your garden and gardening style is so inspirational.
Thanks Katherine
Loved this, was such a full and complete lovely story of the pea shoot. Thank you Charles.
Great thanks
I will certainly try to grow peas for shoots rather than for pods this time. Thanks Charles! Very much appreciated!
at 14:48 really made my day. full of suprise and energy. grow more, share more.
Thank you Charles. I discovered your wonderful you tube channels as I was searching for growing snow peas to harvest the leaves. Two hours later, I am still here looking at your videos and have shared it on my facebook. Again, Thanks.
That's nice and thanks Celine
How can some people come here and dislike this video? This man is awesome!
Kind of you to say, Nam Phurong Dinh
Amazing knowledge in gardening! Thank you Charles!
what a great idea: Thanks Charles. Great to see you on Gardeners World last week too, well done :-)
Hello Charles, pea shoots were one od the first things I sowed in early March after visiting your day course. they just seem to love the Berlin weather and keep thriving. Thanks for another great video. Cheers, Alexandra
Great veg grow in Berlin, well done!
Me too, love watching and hearing Charles
Hi Charles, awesome videos. Many thanks. Mentioning the dates, is very much useful for my planning here in zone 9. Great work and effort. Thanks again.
Great to hear this Sudha and yes, for zone 9 sow just a few days earlier could work.
You always have great information and it is always a pleasure to watch! Thank you!
Thanks Blue Lady
Thank you so much for this video Charles - exactly what was needed as always.
Lovely
Thank you Charles. I'm now making really tasty late Autumn salads with this addition. Yum!
Thank you for this. I have been cutting my shoots much earlier and taking the whole plant. Will change tack. Really helpful, thanks.
Hi Sheila, that was a big reason for posting these videos, the tips on picking, often not explained or understood, and how it can prolong the harvest, making for less time needed in resowing etc
OMG!!! thank you so much Mr Charles! i never thought about eating the shoots!
I found you this year and have watched hours of your videos and echo what everyone says - you are a treasure. I am only commenting because it was nice to see you enjoying (eating) your beautiful product in this video. After watching so many of your videos I don't know how you don't sample more often. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences! -Adam from Michigan
Thanks so much 😊 Adam. Eating sounds bad on the mic!
I bought your diary, built a compost area in the yard, bought a wool sweater and started some seeds. Now all I need is to construct
A dibber and I will be ready to embrace this growing season. Thank you!
Nice to hear Jon, I wish you fine harvests
what a lovely video with the birds in the background during the outro. i can dig it. amen.
Ah this is an issue, so much language has been usurped by the diggers! I have to plough my lonely furrow, a harrowing experience!
Where have you been all these months Ive been preparing to have my first no dig garden?? A video was finally suggested to me by youtube. You are so thorough! Best videos ever! Teaching me step by step like a professor! The hours you must put in each video from ground to seed planting to care and to harvest and then some. You are incredible! Thank you so much Professor Dowding! :-) Sincerely, Mary Ann Foster Shreveport, Louisiana
Thanks Mary Ann, sounds you are a good student!
(from the professor)
Never stop learning from you Charles....l hv started growing dwarf sugar snap peas here in Marybough Victoria and we hv had several frosts already beginning of winter. I grew them like this last year for the first time and they grew well over winter. I really had not much idea LOL but had a bumper crop peas in spring but will now be eating the shoots over winter! Thank you again!
Sounds great Kerrie, thanks for sharing
Just read your article about seeds in Permaculture Magazine yesterday. :) I am trying to grow some sugar pod peas for the first time this year and learning permaculture... Love your videos...
Great to hear Zerrin
I'm soaking some peas right now. I'm excited to grow my own for the shoots. They are delicious! Well-done video. Thank you.
Have fun and thanks
Wow i would love to get beautiful leaves like that can't wait for early spring . your videos are so inspiring thank you.
Hi Tracey, now you know how, you can! Happy harvests.
After watching some of the videos from micro green pea growers it would appear that they germinate much more quickly after a good 8-12 hour soak. They're getting long shoots to harvest after only around 9 days from sowing (albeit under grow lights).
Thanks for sharing as ever Charles. Really appreciate your work
Had 4 "square foot" beds, and just learned and added first "No Dig" bed for more capacity for variety, growing more larger vegetables/plants, and storing/preserving foods. Will plant lettuces in top layer until lower layers settle/decompose this winter. Had interplanted radishes in empty spaces, but didn't think of doing it with other crops. So glad to learn about pea shoots! Never eaten them before, and love new greens for salads, green smoothies. Can feel the "health" in raw greens as they go down. Also recently discovered how easy and fast baby bok choy grows from seed. Planted in late July, harvesting now in mid-Sept. Southeast USA zone 8B. They survived 90 degree F days from planting and still to now. It is Sept 24, and we have had only 3 cooler nights so far, and days still in 90s. Harvested some outer leaves, now letting them grow to heads for stir-fry dishes. Almost ready. This is all so much fun, and your videos are incredibly inspirational! So thankful for you and to you!
Nice comment thanks
Really good video from seed to harvest. Thank you. 🤗
I just found this channel today and every time I've been in the house, I've been binge watching the episodes. They are very wholesome and satisfying. I'm inspired sir, thank you very much.
Hello Brent and thanks for letting me know you enjoy them so much.
You're most welcome. I have an old garden area that's basically potting clay from years of gross tillage and erosion that I'm going to try to heal with your methods. Now if I could just make about 50 tons of compost...lol.
Loving your videos. So comforting. Love seeing you in your kitchen like in your beetroot video😍 learning so much. Always wanted to learn - I'm 48- but never knew where to start.
You are so welcome Kay and crikey, 48 is so young! Plenty to learn yet.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig aww thanks. You made my day! 😁
So awesomely informative. Thank you!
Excellent planting space management!
Thank you sir ! You videos have some kind of healing capability ! hahah i don't know why though !
Complete beginner and I was looking how to plant cleverly with pea, lettuce, tomatoes, radish, kale, marigolds, sage, herbs etc I have two raised beds. Which video should I watch first?
Bayezidh Tanu
yes, healing capability - bravo, exactly what I felt!
love it charles. well done. inspiring. beautiful.
Thanks WizBoots
Thank you again for this video and your expertise , I will do the exact same garden methods as you. thanks
Thank you for your inspiring video.
Thank you for the detailed information. I'm trying this right now, albeit a bit late even here in Canada. Alderman peas were easy to find and boy they germinated well and are growing vigorously. I'm ready to transplant and soon I'll be enjoying this addition to our salads.
Great to hear
Marvelous , absolutely wonderful!! Your videos are such a blessing!! Thank you so much from mid Tennessee .
Hey that sounds grate! How many cuttings did you get?
... and the whole time i was thinking "where are the freaking peas??" lol
i had honestly no idea that the green stuff is good in salads - i always threw this away. but, oh dear, not this summer!!!! thanks, charles! :)
I love this!
How kind of you to share your first harvest of the year with us. Thanks!
Love these videos so much!!
Another great video. We eat broad bean shoots aswell. Couple of harvests before we let them grow. We have found in increases flowers and bushyness. Massive crop of Broad Beans per plant. The shoots are delicious and nutricious. My dad would not eat them though because he still thinks they are poisonous haha
Yes they are tasty and a 'free harvest'
Excellent gardening video in the ' old style ' ( complement ) no crass music, hype, attitude, or sudo politics.
Feel a tad ignorant that I didn't know about pea shoots , will try it.
Watch your back! if I bend over at 90 degrees, I would creak
Like your way of drying out your produce, I feel you like the sound of that water hitting the poly tunnel
Thanks Free Saxon, nice to hear.
Yes we went for some nice audio at the end.
I had some cranial osteopathy (very gentle) to help with my back, it's certainly an issue.
Charles, I did notice at the end of the video, after you rinsed the greens, you mouth was moving. Are you eating some of the profits? Love your videos, especially in the winter. Thank you
thankyou for sharing pea shoots are on my grow list
I've found a new 'thing' to begin. I tasted Smilex for the first time instead of yanking it out and yelling at the prickers, and those shoots were delicious - both just picked and lightly sauteed in butter. I'm thinking these pea shoots will be even better. Can't wait to try this, thanks!
Great information and another great video. Thank you very much. Started reading your book How to Create a New Vegetable Garden. Very easy to read, feels like reading a novel or watching your video. Information you provide is marvelous as well. Thank you ☺☺
Lovely comment Aysen and I am happy you enjoy the book
Since he isn’t doing live classes anymore, do you think someone who learns via tactile style would benefit from his book? I’m more of a hands on learner. Words get too jumbled for me sometimes.
Never heard of it!! Seems delicious😋
Great video, very informative! thanks!
Amazing information....and I'm going to do this...I'm in the middle of starting my peas this year!!!.....Charles Dowding....The Human Salad-Spinner and Gardener Extrordinaire!!!
Best of luck Greg and thankyou
I used to dig the holes with my hand, until I learned from Charles to use the handy stick to punch the holes. Less dirty under my nails and I don't feel like va hungry hobbit scratching in the dirt. 😂 Thanks again for the simple and affective tip.
Hi Charles! I just love your videos! Brings so much inspiration to me to start my own garden one day. I'll just have to move out from the city. Bought your book "Organic gardening" the other day, and it's wonderful.
Soon I can start putting my tomatoes on the balcony, still frosty nights here in Stockholm. I can't wait! Thanks alot for being such a great source of inspiration!
Lovely to hear that I am helping and best of luck with your Swedish summer!
I am certainly going to plant more peas in the garden this year. Sneak them in between the lettuce and tatsoi.
A friend of mine got me mildly addicted to growing sprouts in the dead of winter to help with the planting bug and for lovely fresh eating in the cold snowy winter here in Michigan.
But one of my favorites to sprout is pea shoots. I don't even use any soil in the house I just thoroughly wash two mushroom/to-go containers same size. One with drainage holed one without and a box of marrofat peas. I soak about a half cup of peas in water for about 8 hours, i just start them before bed, then dump them into the mushroom box/to-go box with holes over a bowl or sink(I use rinse/soak water in my house plants) set the holed container into the one without holes and set in warm place to sprout. I rinse twice a day to 3 times a day and when the sprout and go to about 5 to 6 inches I give them a trim with the scissors to add to my meal or to my sandwiches very good on turkey and cheddar sandwich.
Ive gotten about 2 to 3 cuttings from my little soiless boxes before they become too spindly. The root mass is then tossed to the chickens who love them in winter.
I'm a bit frugal so i just use marrowfat peas($3 for 4 pound box) but there are bulk peas sold just for sprouting online. ($12.99 last I looked for 1 pound bag)
But watching your videos I am going to try a row in my own garden this year instead of just growing the sugar snaps and snow peas(mangetout).
Fantastic results, thanks for sharing :)
Another wonderful video Charles. Way to go! I really struggle to successfully grow snap peas here in zone 8b (TEXAS). I am going to try these in a fall garden this year and see how they do. Cheers, Jack
I hope they grow as good in the fall cuz I just bought a huge scoop of sugar snap seeds. I am N of Atl GA so I have a combination of low MTN and mid-southern temps to adjust for! lol The guy at Ace hardware (no comparison to you Charles D. :) ) said wait to the end of August to plant. I have also soaked them overnight to speed things up if I planted late.
I never knew that you can eat peas shoots. Wow, now I know and I will be doing that too.
I am excited to try your multi sowing modules. I've never done that, although I do succession sowing and french intensive planting in small blocks rather than rows. I do get good yields, but I now realize that my heavy feeding crops are hungry. Need to use more compost on top. I do find that I have very little disease or insect issues with using compost and not digging. I will try saving my pea seed next season. Your videos are excellent.
Thanks Mikhu and pleased to help, you will enjoy multisow
Beautiful video, thanks for sharing.
Thankyou Heinrich
Thank you.
Charles you love pea shoots and convince me to grow some ha ha
I have just planted my peas (and yellow French beans) in an old wardrobe which I applied the no dig method to. I will let you know how I get on, I'm only 12 so this is my first attempt. Love watching all your advice and videos are really helpful. Thanks again Charles! Kid Urban Farmer
How amazing, you sound an incredible kid and so innovative to use an old wardrobe! Go well 🥕
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles, I am posting a short clip tonight on my wardrobe planter.
I just learned that you can eat the shoots, and i will put then on the list to grow! because since yesterday I know that I have a allotment garden, from now on
Happy to hear you now have a plot :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig : ~250m² allotment garden
I learned something new, thank you
Nice!
Interplanting is a great idea. I'd like to learn more about how and what to interplant.
i love peas! They never have a chance to get into my kichen. I eat them right before :D I will try this great idea of having the taste of peas already in springtime :D ps: sorry for my english ;D greetings from hamburg!!
Nice to hear and I know what you mean about disappearing peas!
Absolutely love the Salad Spinner ... :-)
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Nice lookin salad spinner!
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i had no idea about eating pea shoots and how easy and fast they grow!
seeing you shake the crate at the end gave me an idea. you could attach some rope or something thru each handle of the crate and sling the crate in 360 degrees around you to remove the excess water from the lettuces. might be easier on your body than shaking, but might make you a little more dizzy haha
Cool idea Brandon, although some of the water shakeout is from the sudden jerk at the end of each mini rotation :)
Hi Charles, I see you pick top shoots only. do you also pick side shoots, since they are tall, taller than the ones I grow as microgreens, and only have top shoots, and I could only harvest twice, and grown in the non divided trays. but growing in dirt floor greenhouse is a nice idea. thanks.
Great video Charles, you are my hero! Could I ask how you package your leaves for sale? I'm asking as plan to set up a little pop up shop for work and here in Guernsey we have a lot of hedge veg stalls, so I've set mine up selling my eggs and would like to add the salad leaves - but not sure best way to keep them fresh. Thanks in advance.
Thnks Zoe and I still use food grade polythene, have not found an eco option which works. Say 8x10in bags for 100g.
Great video! Thank you. Can you share what other greens are mixed in with the pea shoots at the end of the video? I'd like to make a combo mix too.
Thanks Caroline. They are lettuce from outside, and winter salads grown undercover.
Here is one article www.charlesdowding.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Charles-D-winter-salads-AUG13.pdf and there is much more about salad on my website & in books.
Thank you for so much inspiration - I am looking forward to see you in Copenhagen at CPH garden. Is there a specific topic you will cover?
I am explaining the advantages of no dig, and some of the sowings I make, and methods of propagation, crop protection and harvesting.
Do come and say hello.
Thanks - I will definately stop by, and hear you speak. So excited about the first Flower show in Denmark ever ;O).
In asian grocery, peas shoot are on the high pricing brackets vegetables...delicious when you sauté them with olive oil, garlic and a little bit of chicken stocks powder. Yep, this how cantonese restaurants cook them.
I must try that :)
Thank you so much for teaching me how to sow so many kinds of plants. I am saving up to buy your books; one by one. Which one should I get my hands on, first?
Thanks Kelly and I suggest Organic Gardening the Natural No Dig Way.
thank you for replying
My “kids” (18 & 21) won’t eat peas, it’s a texture thing. I’m pretty sure they would eat the shoots. They eat salad and other greens without a problem. Can’t wait to try this out. Ty
How amazing!!
Hi Charles, I just recently discovered your channel and have been devouring every video !! Here in Chile we are just starting spring and I have a lot of season ahead of me! :)!
I have a question about pea shoots. I have different stages of peas growing in my garden right now. Some are giving the first pods, some are starting to flower and some are germinating...
My question is. Can I harvest pea shoots once they started flowering? Can I harvest pea shoots when the plant is giving pods?
If I harvest the pea shoots of my germinating ones (when they are ready), will I have a harvest of pea pods?
Thank you so much in advanced for your answer and congratulations on your videos (thank you for sharing!)
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Thanks for your appreciation Winifrede, and spring... sounds great!
Yes you can harvest pea shoots at any stage. From mature plants, they are more fibrous. When pea plants are in full flower, best pick the shoots to encourage pod development.
Most tender off younger pea plants and repeat picking means less pods. Plants have limited resources, so I prefer to have some for pods, some for shoots. Although the plants for shoots always manage a few pods!
Hi Charles, fantastic teaching style and amazing footage. Thank you so much. Question: When pea shoots thinnen, do you tie them to a 'stick', so the pods can grow upwards or do you leave them as they are? Thanks again!
Hello Andrew and I actually keep picking 6-8 weeks until plants are tired and produce few pods after that, self supporting. Plant energy has been used a lot for the shoots.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks Charles, and I received your book. I enjoy it very much! Full of useful information, cant wait to start in my new garden.
Charles would you give a lecture on your green house and Polly tunnels how you use them etc please Wendy
Wendy that is one for the back burner, let me see how time goes
Excellent video Charles! We'll have to give this a try next spring here in Ontario. Do you know how much of a harvest your get off a bed planted in full pea shoots? kg/sq.m, number of harvest, etc.? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
Mike Cooke it's a luxury veg really, say 8kg from this bed of 9 square metres, worth it for the flavour
Look at all that harvest. This will be my first 'no dig' year. I'm growing veg, salad & flowering plants all no dig. This will be my 3rd year for growing kale, chard, rocket and blueberries, 2nd year for growing spinach, spring onions and beetroot and 1st year for a lot of other things such as peas, shoots, beans and other veggies. I love it all and have been sowing since late January with things such as sweet peas. They have now began to shoot.
Out of interest, who do you supply salad to? Local markets and farm shops or chains?
Great and local Spar, shops, restaurants all 4 miles away
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks. Love your videos. My friends up the road introduced me to your 'No Dig' idea and my next door but one neighbour has heard of you and also does no dig plus I saw you on Gardeners world years ago so you're pretty famous ☺
Hi Charles,send hello from Czech republic😉 I bought your book after seeing you on YT. I have just trivial question about pea shoots. What do you pick? Terminal or lateral shoots? I think just lateral.Thank a lot for sharing your knowledge😊
Terminal too as that encourages more laterals; and thanks :)
Thank you Charles! I am learning just now to start planting and harvesting- wondering why you are twisting out the lettuce in May. Is it just to keep crops rotating/promoting soil health? Do you have other lettuce planted elsewhere for harvesting in the summer months?
Over-wintered lettuce Hollis, and we had transplanted lettuce seedlings early April for leaf production to July, 4 sowings a year for 52 weeks harvest, see my online course 2 charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-2-growing-success/
Brrrrrrr! I have stuck my hands in water to wash various salad greens! Time for a giant salad spinner!
USA Zone 8A, 34N Longitude, Feb 10. Too hot. Cool-weather crops already going to seed just this last week from mild winter. 67-70 degrees for next 5 days expected. Then more freezing after that. Snowed just 2 hours north of here yesterday - full ground cover 1-2 inches (toward appalachian mountains). Growing is certainly a moving target. Losing 4 types of kale, collards, chinese broccoli sprouts, leaf lettuces - all planted in fall, all going to seed. About the only thing not seeding is romaine. :-( Oh well, spring crops are in seed trays.
Amazing how different your zone 8 is to mine.
Here its 45F and high winds so nothing is growing just now.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Yes, as you say, the warm ocean currents do seem to moderate/warm your temperatures or perhaps full winter snow cover would be normal that far north. Best I can tell, our Zone 8A season starts about a month before, and ends about a month after, yours. Our summer days certainly much, much hotter. 90/100 degrees F summer days here. I believe I've heard you say 70s are typical there.
Yes 70's! You seem like zone 10, and us zone 6!
YUMMMM
Hi Charles. Please could you give me your opinion on using well rotted horse manure added to the soil surface to help grow lettuce and peas for leaves and shoots. I don't have home compost and the soil in my greenhouse needs enriching but I am concerned about contaminating the leaves and shoots with manure bourne pathogens.
Hi Lizzie and I have never encountered those problems with using well rotted horse manure, or cow for that matter. The fertiliser companies want us to believe it's unsafe.
Old manure is compost and brings a lot of food to soil organisms, who then increase soil health, so it's good to consider positives rather than worry about theoretical negatives 😀
Thank you for replying. I will go ahead with the horse manure. There is a large supply in our village so I shall get to work👧🌱