Manure

[telboy]

One has to go back to Looby's original post.
Is the manure fresh or rotted?

If fresh - rot it down. If rotted, spread it on thre plot a.s.a.p. 3-4 inches & let the worms do the work! If you have any spare, cover it for next year, pots/leaks/onions - hungrey crops!

[telboy]

[john_miller]

So what is it that carrots & parsnips don't like about manure?

The high salt levels too. If the growing tissue at the comes into contact with a high concentration of salts released as the organic material is broken down then the cells will dessicate and die. This results in the a cessation of the production of the hormone auxin by the root tip. This will then allow another, or other, growing points to start growing resulting in multiple growing points at harvest- the 'forking' of carrots.

If rotted, spread it on thre plot a.s.a.p. 3-4 inches & let the worms do the work! If you have any spare, cover it for next year, pots/leaks/onions - hungrey crops!

Spreading even rotted manure at this time of year can still result in nutrients being released and lost into the groundwater. While it will leave the undecomposed organic matter as a soil conditioner it is a wasting a benefit of painstakingly collected and composted material. Manure can be spread in early fall but only when there is still time to sow a green manure to lock up any released nutrients in their tissues. Timing can be modified in mild falls such as the one I gather the U.K. is now enjoying.

[blight]

agrree with you,john.
i put mine on , rotted down, from spring onwards. and because there is not all that much of it left after decomposition, i use it sparingly and according to what i think the different vegetables require.

[wardy]

I grew my courgettes, runner beans, squashes, pumpkins , spuds in fresh manure and they were just fine  :)

[Mrs Ava]

I heap it up for 6 months, then spread it over where I plan to grow my spuds, onions, beans, etc, trying to avoid where I am planning to grow my root crops.

I also get some red hot fresh from the horses bot to grow my squashes in...and well...you have seen the pictures....they do okay!  ;D

[jennym]

My plot is very wet, and so I tend to put manure on in the spring, otherwise the nutrients do leach away. I even have to cover any that I have overwintered. The evidence of leaching is apparent when it rains - the gorgeously tea coloured liquid filling the ditches is a testimony to it.
For the same reason I grow green manures such as poached egg plant, which helps stop soil washing away.