Have you heard of guano? It's nature's own fertilizer

Chicago Sun-Times | June 23, 1991| | Copyright

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but guano still would just stink.

Guano, the dried, aged and composted droppings of bats, seabirds and even insects, may be new to some, but it's an organic fertilizer that has been used for centuries. The concept behind it is as old as gardening itself. The first garden book written in English (in 1440) insists on using dung in garden beds, and one of my books on garden history contains a photo of a Roman mosaic in which two sturdy men are bravely transporting human waste from the house to the garden.

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