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I haven't used horse/farmyard manure anymore for several years..mainly cause I got fed up with a amount of weedseed that comes with it.. ::)With clay you need carbon material that will open it up..straw is good.. you can dig this in..just like manure..and then provide rest of the 'goodness' by homemade compost, greenmanures, pelleted manures...but you get this 'carbon' from other sourses too...eg..sweetcorn stems chopped up into ground (after getting the cobs off)..cardboard..I also use any veg waste that is a bit slower to 'rot' in compost bin..lot of things like veg peelings, cabbage leaves etc..can go straight into ground..you can do trench at the time..covering it with soil. During growing season it maybe bit more difficult due lack of room..but do it in winter and it will be 'gone' by spring ;)
we're using lots of spent mushroom compost this year, only not on the potato bed, they don't like it, apparently, tried cabbages in it this year and it was ace ;D
Parsniptoast, we buy our bags (75ltr+) from a farm near burscough, flytrapman, I guess it's the same place, 6 bags for 12.00, never asked about getting it delivered, we go for a run and pick some up :)
You could always grow some wheat..next summer cut off all the ripe seed heads then chop and dig all the straw in..good source of carbon.. ;)
this may (will) cause Nitrogen depletion for 1st, maybe 2nd year. (Carbon / Nitrogen ratio about 100 - 1 in straw, needs to be about 7-3 for plant use)