07-08-2012, 11:53 AM
When I lived in Oregon we decided to make a garden out of an old area that had once been fenced in. Found out later it had been a turkey pen for years, and all that manure had turned the space into gardening nirvana. Frigging garden exploded, got cukes as big as your arm. Everything we put in there came out gigantic, so much stuff we ran out of people to give it to. Only problem was the soil had a high acid problem from the manure content, so delicate stuff like melons and some plants didn't do well.