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Originally Posted by Kat2
Goat and bunny poo can be added directly to a garden area; horse and cow doodies should be composted for a few months. Chicken output is HOT so I suspect that accounts for the raised temps in the setup Richard mentioned. (You can bury that stuff in coldframes up north and get a lot of action.)
I tried making manure tea from somewhat older poultry leavings (5 months?); knowing it's power, I severely watered it down and used my mix gently. Why chicken stuff is so powerful I don't know but it is; I wouldn't use it fresh on any plant I wanted to keep.
Mulch the corm and wrap the stalk--advice from a banana newbie but an ancient gardener and old fig gal. Protect the roots!
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Generally in my area we don't get below the 30s in the wintertime, so I just leave my plants out unprotected (we got to 31 last winter and had a few frosts, and that was cold for us). Frosts are rare here, and many years they don't even happen at all. What I'm trying to get at with this is simply to extend the active growth period of my plants for a few weeks to a month, because our winters are rather long.