The Duchess Of Cansalot : cow

When I was a little girl, my older brother Lawson, sister Lynn, and the neighborhood kids and I would make a favorite past time on a snow day of going down to the local Dairy

The dairy responsible for my cow poop fetish.

and slide down what we called Pee Falls with flattened cardboard.

Who would've thought cardboard has so many uses!

We would slide down the hillside of the pasture

Pee Falls!

and go straight onto a solid thick sheet of ice over Dog Creek. We would do this for hours, then have to walk the mile home in our frozen Pee Falls playing clothes.

In Preparing my garden, in the Fall I always lay cardboard down to stall weed growth and then cover with mulch and leaves. As a fertilizer, I use nothing but cow manure.

Cow Poop anyone?

Having the resources to get all the manure helps, but one thing I learned is that if you call and ask people who have farms, whether it is cow or horse most people will gladly give you some as long as you scoop and haul yourself.

Ok, so not Knee Deep, But Deep in Cow Poop!

If you choose manure as a fertilizer, you do not want to put it on HOT. When I say Hot, I don't mean seeing steam running from it, Hot is Fresh, just like what you would step in!

Usually you need to let it set for at least a year and then work it in your soil.

I wish I could endorse cow manure. I've known it from my early childhood years and it will be a forever friend! Your produce is just Bigger,