I don't fertilize these plants at all and yet they are my fastest growers, just planted in March.  It is a mystery :)

 

Hmmm?

I know I know!!!!! Chicken Poop?

That would be unlikely as I don't have any chickens:)  Not anymore anyway...things are a PITA.

Aflac.

ok then, duck poop

Since we are ruling out "chicken bang bang" then it's Daffy ducks cousins

What's up, Duck?

It's all the extra CO2 from the exhalations of the animals.

Sure is a head scratcher....

The animals produce gases and waste that help plants take off... We have chickens and they burnt two plants with their waste....

Looks like roast duck basted in fig sauce to me.

[QUOTE=Speedmaster]The animals produce gases and waste that help plants take off... We have chickens and they burnt two plants with their waste....[/QUOTE]

It was a joke:)  Sorry, probably a language difference thing.  

But, to be helpful and to prevent someone from going out and throwing shovels full of fresh poultry manure around their plants.....some may wonder why all that very hot poultry manure isn't frying those plants?  Even though some of the ground around those figs is caked in duck poo day after day the reason they don't burn is mulch, wood chips to be specific.  The raw wood chips are about 10" thick and those chips are using a lot of the nitrogen the ducks are producing to break down so by the time it filters through the chips the nitrogen is at a safe level for the plants.  As the chips finish breaking down the nitrogen they did lock up will be released back to the plants.  

[QUOTE=Charitup]Looks like roast duck basted in fig sauce to me.[/QUOTE]


Soon........most of those are about 11-13 weeks old and there are about 100 of the poo flingers out there now and the over winter population will be 21 so many are heading to freezer camp......if some are lucky they will head to Hershells instead of the freezer.  There are 3 ducks still sitting on nests.  But there are probably 40 that will be processed soon.   

What is your soil like?
Do you have to pay the ducks for helping you with the weeds.:)

Pino,


Picture the sand in a hour glass.........that is my "soil".  Pure snow white fine sand that here they call sugar sand.  Not quite sure why it is called that, the color is right but the sand here is very very fine.  Not complaining though as it is pretty easy to amend if you have an unlimited supply of woodchips and thankfully I do.   I do pay them in pellets..about 50 lbs of them a day right now:)  During the off time when it is just the 21 adults they eat 50 lbs in about 2 weeks.   They are good bug eaters but far as weeds they are no help at all.  I guess if I did not feed them they would eat more weeds but they would grow much slower.

This entire thread is making me hungry and I think I will take Goss's suggestion of roast duck (my favorite is roast then fried) with, okay fig/orange sauce.





                           

Also, new research shows that certain animal sounds do improve plant growth.  It turns out Jack's beanstalk wasn't from a magic seed but it grew like that because there was a critical mass of ducks quaking at just the right intervals.

I guess it is a good thing that these ducks are silent, they never quack.  

I guess it's only California ducks that make noise.  The ducks are organic, back to nature types and they do 'Earth Quacks'.

Waynea we must be somewhat alike.  I look at most animals and plants as food first then other things they can be used for.  Guess just the way I was brought up.   Sunday home from church go get us a chicken boy.  Off comes the head skin it swinge the odd feathe or hairs over a fire then fried chicken.  Just a little one barely able to hold the chicken and swing the axe.  Still remember like it was yesterday.  Kids now days don't have a clue where their food comes from.