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Originally Posted by Labradors2
I collected and composted all my chicken manure, along with the shavings, and kept it in a composter for a year to make sure it would be properly broken down. I was really looking forward to using it on my tomatoes this season. There's not a lot of it, and I had planned to put a little of this black gold in each planting hole.
Now I'm coming across some posts that don't advise using chicken manure in the planting hole.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Linda
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That strategy used to work well for me years ago when we raised chickens. 
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"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
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