My dad ordered our manure and it has turned up still in poo form. I used manure when I had a garden on my flower beds and it always came well rotted, lovely rich and spreadable.
I have said to him that it may scorch his plants but he's bunged it on anyway in the hope that it will break down in a fortnight! ::)
I've said I'll stack mine and order from my usual guy when I'm ready for it ( still clearing that blimmin couch grass)
So, who, if either of us has the right idea? When I say it's still in poo form, I mean a horse could have done it last week. I know from reading the other manure thread on basics that you can use not so well rotted manure on some things but he's covered nearly his entire plot. He won't listen to me either way but I'm thinking am I being to textbook about it? ???
Well roots certainly won't like it, and if it is as fresh as you say it will certainly scorch lots of things
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That's what I thought, and what I've always been told. ::)
The load I've just had delivered is like that too, and with more straw than poo. What do you think of the idea of burying it in a raised bed, under a few inches of soil, and leaving it to stew for a few months while waiting for the weather to warm up? I've done this in a bed that will have beans and squash in, but what about other stuff. Will it still burn the roots then?
cj :)
I would stack it and leave it for 6 months or so. However, lovely hot fresh manure is great to create a hot bed as CJ as said. When I plant out my squash plantlets, I dig a hole, fill it with hot poop, stick make another smaller hole in the poop, put in some potting compost, then plant the plantlet in the compost. Boy do they grow like the clappers!
Thanks Emma Jane, bit of both then. Will stack most and use a bit for those things that like it and pray for my dads veg! :D