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Prep 500 – Horn manureThis is fresh cow manure prepared in a cow’s horn over the winter: it improves the soil and helps roots to come to their full potential. It is applied to the soil; it doesn’t matter though if you splash the plants while applying it. About Cows’ HornsA cow’s horn is a special thing and it isn’t the same as a bull’s horn. The cow’s horn is heavy, thick-walled and slender, spiralling right up to the tip. It shows how many calves she has had in “rings”, rather like aging a tree. Bull’s horns are thin-walled, have no rings and are generally conical, growing straight without the spiralling from base to tip. People have tried putting the stuff in other containers, including bull’s horns, to see if the process still works. It doesn’t. You end up with manure very like what went in originally. There’s something about the cow’s horn that’s special, enables the manure to turn from smelly cow pat to fine, sweet-smelling earth-like compound. The same goes for the silica although the non-effects aren’t so obvious. I don’t know why this happens and – at present – I don’t think anyone else really does either. but it does work and the results on the garden are wonderful. NB – the horns only ever come from animals after they have been slaughtered at the end of their lives. Now cow is ever de-horned in biodynamics unless there is a desperate medical reason to do so. And biodynamic farmers tend to use every part of the beast they are allowed to so nothing of the cow is wasted but all is used, and with thanks. |
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