101 uses for Bat Guano?

The previous owners of my property left about 300 lbs of dried, aged, bat guano. Since they were not much into gardening I’m going to guess they were into gunpowder or bombs??

So….if there a permaculture list of the best uses of bat guano as well as amounts and methods I would love to hear about it!!

Be careful using it on a garden.
In the summer of 1978 we bought a huge 100 year old brick church building in a small town in far north Utah. In the evenings large numbers of bats would swarm out of the eaves. We thought they were just living in the eaves and weren't too concerned.
We cut a hole in the 15 foot high ceiling to gain access to the attic and discovered an immense colony of bats living in the rafters and on the wall at one end. A bat expert from USU came out to investigate and identified them as a mother colony of Little Brown Bats. We wanted them out of there so we could expand our living space into the attic. He told us that there was no way they would move until the babies were raised.
That fall after the bats migrated we shoveled out enough guano and mummified bats to cover the 25 foot by 50 foot garden space several inches deep. We tilled it in in the spring with big expectations of a bountiful garden. Nothing grew except for a few bedraggled weeds. The stuff was so hot that it sterilized the soil. We rototilled in truck loads of rabbit dung in the fall and the next spring and for years after we had a very productive garden.
When the bats moved out we sealed up the access points and installed a large bat house under the eaves at the peak of the roof and had a bat colony for the rest of the time that we lived there.  

Hi Jen,

Well, that is a LOT of Bat guano!  My thoughts are that you have an amazing resource for a very, very long time.  As in perhaps the rest of your life?  I agree with what Steve said about Bat guano being very hot.  If you use it, my thoughts would be to use it sparingly.

That said, maybe a better use would be to use the guano as a starter for a compost pile that is dominated by browns.  If you had or acquired a bunch of wood chips (maybe you could do some trimming and chip up a bunch yourself?) then the bat guano might be the perfect ingredient to get the decomposition going and break it down quickly.

Alternatively, if you have a bunch of fallen leaves, you might be able to shred these up (think about using a lawnmower) and adding the guano to accomplish the same effect.

I mention the above two techniques because left to their own devices, wood and leaves can sometimes take years to decompose, even under good conditions.  But that much guano might really change the picture.  And in composting the wood/leaves, you would also be "composting" the guano--you would render whatever quantity you used much less hot.

So I don't have 101 uses, but here are two to start your list!

Eric

I cant think of 101 uses for bat guano.

One would be to make compost tea.

If I had 300 pounds to get rid of I would do trench composting.

Dig a big trench and put the bat guano into the trench and forget about it.

Mother nature will do the rest.