Where To Buy Fresh Manure For Garden....?

[arunsakda]

Suggest you will have more success with chicken manure as its high in Nitrogen.Cow manure obviously contains a lot of seed, which passes through the cattle, and its not always fresh pasture they graze on so you finish up spreading a lot of unwanted weeds into your garden,more useful as a mulch or added to compost heaps rather than a fertiliser.

You can buy chicken manure in pellet form,quite cheap in big bags from Kamtieng Market.

Cows have multiple stomachs and the manure should not have viable seeds if it has been properly composted, but good luck finding some. Horse on the other hand. Looks like barely chewed vegetable matter. I hear some of the specialist cultivators growing high value cash crops are using bat guano and Rabbit pellets.

[wisemonkey]

Close by Tesco, and adjacent the big aquarium/fish outlet, look for the turf supplies as they also stock soil, potting mix, wood chip etc. Immediately to the south, next soi, there's a hardware/garden supplies shop and they have 2 warehouses full of fertilisers and soil/potting mixes.... one lady speaks English.

We usually mix a combination of soil and potting mix with other organics to get the desired result.

I think I was at the place you talked about with the warehouse full of fertilisers and potting mix, only problem was the lady wasn't there and had two guys trying to help out but it we were getting nowhere, they managed to help me with perlite, but then the other bags were closed and I didnt want to get another bag home only to find it was the same crap. Maybe I need to get a thai friend to write down what I need. Do any of the potting mixes already come with a little perlite like they do back in the west, usually some perlite and other nutrients are added to begin with.

Im attaching some pics of some bags that looked promising, not sure what they say, it was in another store and the lady kept saying organic.

[Puwa]

I have never found any good potting soil, and so I mix up my own. Local clay is rich but dense; it tends to waterlog and not allow oxygen to pass through. Vermiculite, perlite, and peat are hard to track down and overpriced. The best alternative soil amendments for structure are ground coconut husk and rice hulls. Both are widely available here, very cheap (30 baht per large "krasob" sack), and work great. Coco manages to both drain out excess water and retain moisture in itself.

Edited June 12, 2015 by Puwa

[wisemonkey]

I have never found any good potting soil, and so I mix up my own. Local clay is rich but dense; it tends to waterlog and not allow oxygen to pass through. Vermiculite, perlite, and peat are hard to track down and overpriced. The best alternative soil amendments for structure are ground coconut husk and rice hulls. Both are widely available here, very cheap (30 baht per large "krasob" sack, and work great. Coco manages to both drain out excess water and retain moisture in itself.

So you would buy the normal soil bags and then add these? What ratios do you use?

[kaptainrob]

Apart from Kamthieng market, most of the roadside nurseries stock potting mix and many also have sacks of rice husk etc.

Like Puwa, we mix peanut shell, rice husk, soil and potting mix with a natural manure or compost.

[cfhebertjr]

thanks for the info....

How about peat moss and vermiculate? anyone about where to buy this stuffs?

same place...kham tiang market behind tesco on highway 11