How to use rabbit manure for different crops
Before using rabbit manure, you should know its composition and characteristics. This is a unique type of fertilizer that can not only enrich the soil with useful microelements, but also soften, warm up and loosen the soil. Such properties of manure are due to the special secretion in organisms rabbits and their special diet.
Rabbit manure is the most effective fertilizer
One kilogram of this manure contains:
- magnesium oxide - 7g;
- nitrogen - 6 g;
- potassium oxide - 6 g;
- calcium oxide - 4 g.
The content of almost equal proportions of all the elements presented is also unique and is inherent in rabbit droppings. In the manure of other animals, the predominance of one of all the animals is most often observed.
It is thanks to this composition and phosphoric acids that a small amount of rabbit manure can replace almost ten times the volume of fertilizers sold. They include ammonium sulfate, potassium salt and superphosphates.
Where is rabbit manure used
There are a variety of uses for rabbit droppings as a fertilizer:
- in the form of a liquid top dressing (fresh manure is needed to make it);
- powdery form;
- processed as compost;
- humus.
It is quite possible in some cases to use this fertilizer without prior composting. The substrate does not contain plant seeds that are capable of growing and contaminating the soil with weeds.
Rabbit manure is used in various forms, which have a special purpose and certain characteristics.
Fresh manure
Fresh this fertilizer is rarely used. But still, they can be fed to depleted soil. After harvesting, it is necessary to spread fresh rabbit manure evenly over the land at the end of summer. This method will help to enrich the soil with useful substances before the next spring planting. During the cold winter period, having frozen and decomposed, manure will lose all decay products. And during the period of snow melting or with spring rains, it will dissolve and penetrate into the lower layers of the soil, saturating it with useful substances.
Powdered rabbit manure
Having exposed the droppings balls to burning or drying under the sun, they are ground into a powdery composition. This form is used to prepare fertilizer, after mixing the dry powder with soil. The proportions used are 1 tbsp. l of dry manure and three kilograms of land.
Powdered rabbit manure is used to prepare liquid feeding. In this case, 1 tsp of dry workpiece is needed for three liters of water. Used to fertilize indoor and some garden plants.
Humus
The product of natural decay of manure in natural conditions with the help of worms is called humus. It looks uniform, loose. Because it has undergone additional processing in the body of the simplest invertebrates. Humus must be placed on the surface of the site in equal portions and then dug, deepening it into the lower layers of the soil.So it will be possible to maximally efficiently saturate the earth with microelements.
Compost
Rabbit droppings can be used as compost fertilizers. Having previously laid it in early spring, in a year this form of manure use will be ready for use. Having spread it evenly over the land plot, it should be dug for better permeability of nutrients into the soil.
Before direct use, the compost is diluted with water. Often used for feeding root crops, various fruit or berry crops. Compost is widely used as mulch. So you will avoid excessive drying out of the soil, prevent weeds.
In winter, garlic is covered with compost. This helps to protect the crop from freezing in severe frosts.
Fertilizing cucumbers
Furry animal droppings are an effective source for fertilizing a variety of vegetables, flowers, legumes, trees and berry bushes. Rabbit manure is a great fertilizer for cucumbers. This feeding is the most acceptable.
You should always remember the danger of using any kind of manure in its pure form.
Regardless of the form of cultivation of cucumbers - greenhouse or in the open field, rabbit manure is equally valuable in application for this type of vegetable crops.
Using it, gardeners pursue the following goals:
- Enrich the soil as efficiently as possible. This is very important in order to obtain good yields. Therefore, in the process of changing crop rotation, it is advisable to carry out such a procedure every 2-3 years.
- Create greenhouse conditions when planting seedlings or sowing seeds.
- Soil mulching will help increase the looseness of the soil. Reducing the density of agricultural land is a prerequisite for better germination and quick fruit emergence.
In some cases, fertilizer is used using a liquid solution of rabbit droppings. In greenhouses it is necessary to distribute it pointwise. At the end of autumn, the open ground is covered with a thin layer, which in spring will be saturated deep into the soil thanks to melt water. In any case, it is important not to make a mistake in choosing the amount of fertilizer applied.
To cook warm beds advisable about a week before sowing. Litter or fresh manure should be applied in furrows up to 10 cm deep, which are located in the middle of the proposed bed. Sprinkle with earth, water and cover with foil to form a greenhouse effect. The subsequent chemical reaction will help warm the soil by generating heat at the place where the manure was applied.
Compost is used in mulching. It should be distributed between rows so as not to harm the plant due to the very high nitrogen content.
In cases where the seedlings are weak, there is no active growth, you can make a liquid top dressing. During fertilization, you must be extremely careful, do not water the plant itself. The fertilizing should be distributed between the seedlings in the prepared holes.
Rabbit dung as fertilizer for tomatoes
Fertilization methods for nightshades are identical to those used for feeding cucumber seedlings. All that is needed is special care in using the droppings due to the even greater sensitivity of tomatoes to nitrogen. For the same reason, when preparing the garden for planting a tomato, you should use completely rotted compost. If necessary, you can add fresh droppings to it, but not more than 5% of the total mass of the resulting substrate.
Rabbit dung can also be used for strawberries.
Accuracy when applied to this type of vegetable concerns feeding in liquid form. In order to get a good result, it is advisable to pre-test the prepared mixture on several bushes of the planted culture.
Rabbit dung for flowers
Fertilization with rabbit manure also has a positive effect on home types of flowers, ornamental crops if used correctly. Before preparing rabbit dung fertilizer, you need to take a mixture of dung and wood ash. It is prepared from equal parts using a small amount of water. Further, the substrate must ferment. For complete readiness of the fertilizer for further use, the fermented mixture must be diluted with water, in a ratio of 1 to 10 parts.
Also, a mixture of dry powdered manure and earth is suitable for fertilizing flowers. A similar composition can be used as a substrate for planting.
Preparation and application of fertilizers
For easier composting, rabbit manure should be mixed with horse, cow, or sheep droppings. It is also recommended to use only organic food waste. In the process of decomposition, it is necessary to turn the compost heap from time to time to ensure a uniform process. You can check the readiness by looking at the structure of the compost. It will become smooth and crumbly.
Once or twice a season, it is worth applying fertilizing, which is placed in the holes formed near the plants. You can add an amount not exceeding 2 liters per 1 sq. m. of soil. To prepare this type of feeding, dissolve 1-1.5 kg in a bucket of water. fresh manure. The solution is considered ready after it is infused and the droppings are completely dissolved.
Fresh manure contains more useful fertilizer components. In a dry state, it retains only half of the nutrients for replenishing the soil. Such raw materials are suitable for the preparation of liquid top dressing..
Rabbit droppings have advantages over other types of manure due to the higher content of nutrients in their composition. When used correctly, you can get a bountiful and high-quality harvest.