A friend gave us a couple of bags of rabbit manure to experiment with. (Thanks, Dennis!) Anna was ecstatic.

Some gardeners report that rabbit pellets are cool enough to use close to plants pre-composting. But if urine is mixed in and you can smell ammonia, even rabbit manure can burn your plants.

We plan to topdress our new strawberry beds with manure, but to keep the pellets several inches away from young roots.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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