While I was stopped in traffic, I took this picture. This is only 2 minutes away from where we live. This is part of the Palatine Park District..the town where our closest train station is located...and they have a horse barn..which is this white building. Every time I see this sign I remember the time one of our neighbors decided to go and get the "free fertilizer"...He said he had more weeds in his yard from that fertilizer and it took him the next 3 years to get rid of the weeds! He had GREAT grass...but those horses..you know they eat everything and it was all in the fertilizer...We have resisted getting free fertilizer from here. I am a fan of natural when at all possible but not THIS natural!
This reminds me of my youth when the farmer I worked for had manure spread on his fields for fertilizer. My job was to run a plow afterwards to disk the manure into the ground. Not a very good job ... We had a large feed yard outside of the small town in Texas where I grew up. When the smell was strong my parents would say it was the smell of money.
ReplyDeleteLOL! ha ha, love your little blurb about the "free fertilizer!" Ha ha!
ReplyDeleteI understand, better not this free fertilizer.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pity that free things are often of bad quality. :-)
ReplyDeleteIf it's composted properly, it actually is quite mild. I used to go to my local stables and get horse manure when I lived in Maryland. My flowering plants, especially my heirloom roses, loved it.
ReplyDeleteThis is funny! I've tried to get my husband to go get free fertilizer before but he didn't want to stink up his pickup. Might be a good thing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful picture!
I had to come back to say that apparently, the stables I went to fed their horses better and the horse poop didn't have weed seeds or anything bad in it!!
ReplyDeleteIt is really great if you put it in a pile and let it compost over winter. It should get hot enough to kill most of the seeds in the manure. Actually that and chicken manure is about the best there is if it is allowed to compost.
ReplyDeleteHai Neva, You make me laugh every time I visit your blog, always you 'see' somthing which is for most people maybe 'normal' that proofs for e that your really have a 'sharp eye" as a photographer:)
ReplyDeletebtw this week w'll (IOS and me) go back to the vet but the good news is that here bones are almost back to normal (from the outside) so I wonder what the vet will think . we'll go on wednesday, :)
JoAnn :) also from IOS :)
Hughs for 2 doggies and you :)
I went to a local farm a few years ago and he had the biggest pile of cow manure you ever saw, he dug into it with his tractor so I could get at the well rotted inside... oh! it did the garden well, but my neighbours were not to pleased at the smell.
ReplyDeleteMy parents always said, Where's theres muck, there's brass. (Brass = Money)
Better than fertiziler. I want the type of grass that can grow in pavement. I know when the lawn is dying in July and can't get anything to grow despite watering, there is always grass growing up & thru the cracks in our walkway and sidewalks (despite trying to kill it all the time!!).
ReplyDeleteNice shot. The horses must make for some pleasant scenes while in traffic.