Have you ever thought about using bat poop in your garden? So we call it guano and for some reason whenever I think of guano I think of that

Jim Carrey movie Ace Ventura where he like drinks the

guano so I do not recommend that you drink your guano but gardeners will use

back guano as a type of manure fertilizer in their gardens.

It really helps plants to thrive, become healthier.

It's a relatively high nitrogen, medium, phosphorus,

and low potassium.

So you can kind of get a sense of when and where you might

want to use this in the garden. So what is it? It is the excrement of bats, right? So I mean in the past in the 18th century, bat guano was actively

harvested from bat caves actually as a component of gunpowder. In fact, actual bat cave mines

were created to harvest Bat Guano.

Today, like I said, it is popularly used as an organic fertilizer for your garden.

You can use it as a conditioner for your garden soil, a nutritious feed for your plants,

and improves the growth and the structure of the soil.

Interestingly enough, it is also a decent compost activator

because it will speed up the decomposition process by kind of getting those

microbes really going. So some benefits. It's chock full of nutrients. Typically like I said it's around a 1031 nitrogen phosphorus potassium so you can kind of sense that you may want to do a top dress of it or mix it into your soil before you plant so it can start to break down and then that nitrogen is available for the beginning

stages of plant growth.

Bat guano also contains microbes that benefit the texture of your garden soil kind of contribute to that overall soil food web

and it can also help make dense soils lighter and increase aggregation in looser soils because again you're adding organic matter.

Guano, unlike many chemical fertilizers, is not easily washed away from the

soil so it just kind of stays there which is what you wanted to do, and slowly breaks down, becoming a part of your soil.

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