Topic: Growing veg on compost heap

[caroline7758]

I've read about growing pumpkins on a compost heap- just wondered if they'd grow on half-rotted manure? Hate to see it sitting there doing nothing!

[busy_lizzie]

I would go ahead Caroline, - I think they will love it!   A man on our Site grows pumpkins and a variety of other veggies on his compost too and they seem to do very well. busy-lizzie

[Columbus]

Hi caroline,  :)

I remembered that we wrote about hot beds a few weeks ago. I did a search and found this.

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,57/topic,16309.0

I have two leaf mould cages topped with horse muck on which I plan to grow hundred-weight pumpkins and my original plot-clearing compost heap is topped with the same mix and toasting under tarpaulins. This will be home for regular halloween pumpkins and maybe a marrow.

The baby squash plants are doing well in my potting shed.  ;D

Best of luck, Col

[caroline7758]

Thanks- I'll definitely give it a go!

[snoppers]

what about cucumbers would they grow on half rotted manure, or anything else  for matter?

[Roy Bham UK]

what about cucumbers would they grow on half rotted manure, or anything else  for matter?

Yes ;D

[derbex]

I grew courgettes on my manure stack last year -and that was shaving and only about 3 months old when they went in.  This year I 've got a soil stack and might put them in that.