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Originally Posted by dice
If you want to do the hot-bed seed-starting method but lack horse manure, you can mix the cow and sheep manure with straw to make it more like horse manure. Its purpose is simply to provide heat of decomposition, and for that it needs the air space that horse manure naturally has and that mixed in straw will provide to cow and/or sheep manure. I would not worry about exact proportions.
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I have a nursery where to start the seedlings, constructed by my father: it`s about 2/3 in the ground, with 2 big pipes, in witch I put sawdust and burn it(a furnace). There are 2 beds on top of them. My worry is what to use as seed starting mix.
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