There’s nothing like that moist, odiferous smell of fresh manure on a garden bed.  The nutrients alone are well worth enduring the smell.  But most neighborhoods frown on having a cow in your backyard so here is an alternative solution to manure for your yard from Herb Quarterly:

Take your grass clippings, pulled up weeds and raked leaves and stuff in large black plastic garbage bages adding about two quarts of water for moisture.  Loosing tie the bag allowing space for gases to escape.  Leave the bags in the sun to bake.  Kind of like sun tea.

Over the course of the next month, check the bags occasionally to ensure they are still moist and turn the bags over at that same time.  They will feel hot to the touch. After several weeks you’ll have bags filled with “faux fertilizer” fit for your flower beds.  The perfect cover for your bulbs this fall/winter.

Of course, the neat, clean and easy way to fertilize your gardens and trees is with regular doses of Great Big Plants! 

Now available in gallon containers for your convenience!

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