Yes, rabbit manure is an excellent fertilizer for gardens due to its high nitrogen content, which can help promote healthy plant growth. The bedding, which is likely made from wood shavings or straw, can also be beneficial for the soil by improving its structure and water retention capacity. However, as you mentioned, the bedding may contain rabbit urine, which can be high in salts and may harm plants if applied directly to the soil.
It's a good idea to let the mixture sit for a while to allow any excess salts to leach out before using it in the garden. The holes in the bottom of the container will help with drainage, and you can also rinse the mixture with water to further reduce salt levels.
Once the mixture has been properly aged and drained, you can add it to your garden soil as a natural fertilizer. If you're concerned about the potential for high salt levels, you can mix the rabbit manure and bedding with other organic materials like compost or leaf mold to dilute the mixture.
Such a wonderfully detailed response! I can't tell you how much I appreciate it! Thank you, thank you!
I have much enthusiasm for gardening, but much less “know how”. I google my way along, watch YouTube gardening channels, read web sites, and have become somewhat dismayed at the amount of contradictory, inaccurate, misleading info available on nearly every aspect of gardening but have at least come to realize that and not believe everything.
The bunny berries and bedding come from one very productive bunny. But all my attempts to research the potential effects of her bedding have come to nothing. The bedding looks more like white Kleenex than anything when first applied to her cage, just with a firmer texture. Also, there is what I think is alfalfa mixed in, which I forgot to mention.
On a whole 'nother topic, most of my adult life I was a “Ew, a worm,” girly-girl until in my gardening research I stumbled upon the words “worm farm”, which struck me as appallingly gross, so I googled it out of curiosity. What on earth was a worm farm, who on earth had one, and why?! The only appalling thing I found was the depth of my own ignorance.
In any case, it does reassure me that the red wigglers respond very well to the bunny berries and the bedding. They don't seem to actually process the bedding, but it doesn't appear to bother them and they don't avoid it. Still, I wish I could find definitive, bottom-line bedding info rather than hoping it's probably, maybe, most likely okay.
Lastly, at the risk of being too dang wordy, I've wondered how much water needs to drain through the bunny business to remove salts? Will one good rain or hosing down do it? I dunno that either! I've erred on the side of caution somewhat impatiently, but I have a collection of recently acquired bunny business and it's planting time here in Zone 6b.
Anyway, hugs to you, thanks again, and I plan to follow you like a new puppy!
