Every three months or so, I head to Saddle Up riding club in Pinellas Park to get a truck load of some of the finest compost material you could ask for — cooked horse manure.
Saddle Up has many horses and they keep the manure at the back of their property. You can get fresh stuff for the compost pile or take from piles that have cooked for a few months, which is what we got this time. It’s fantastic organic material to amend our sandy soil and make it good for growing vegetables.
I took Lucy with me last weekend. Jeff at Saddle Up started loading us up with their tractor, but blew a hydraulic hose. He then had to get the Bobcat to get us filled up. Then I drove the sagging farm truck — with hazard lights on — back to St. Pete at a clip of no more than 30 mph.
While there, we visited with their two pigs, their chickens and even a couple horses that were grazing. Oh, and they even have a goat!
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