a grand horse poo project

I got a telephone call this evening from a friend whose teenage daughter has a horse. Said daughter has collected all the horse poo from the paddock into a pile, as per her agreement with her parents, and now they need to get rid of it. There is a trailer load at least apparently.

Never one to say no to a compost opportunity, I've arranged to go out with large sacks tomorrow and take what we want. At this time of the year, I wouldn't expect lots of weed seeds, which can be a problem with horse poo.

This sounds like a lot more horse poo than we've had before. I'm going to need to get some pea straw to mix with it. I've also been thinking about putting corrugated iron on top to heat it up more (and keep the dogs out of it). Corrugated iron (we have some cast off old stuff in our ready to reuse gifts pile) has sharp edges so no good building a compost heap with where the children can get hurt on it.

So the current (expanding into a grand) plan is to turn more of the area outside the garage into garden this way. I could use the tyres from last week's photo to make makeshift paths and then lay horse poo and peastraw over the rest of the lawn and then lay corrugated iron on top and then put big rocks on top of that. We could have a bumper pumpkin harvest this year. A reputation as an obsessed gardener who recycles many things is highly beneficial...