I picked up about 6 bags of horse manure today, most of it quite turdy but some straw as well.
What do I do with it now? do I leave it in the bags for a bit or pile it up in a heap, or stick it onto my beds when the spuds show?
Help!!!!!
It depends what you are growing.
You can put some in the bean trench.
Grow your Pumpkins on it.
Dig it into the soil before you plant something.
Some crops do not like recently manured soil. :)
I'm just doing spuds and corn. The 1st and 2nds are in and I am just prepping the bed for maincrop.
The corn bed hasn't been touched yet but i won't be planting the corn outside for another month or so.
chuck it somewhere, and go fill the bags again.
Wish our plots got the free deliveries that other plots do
I've always thought fresh manure wasn't very good for plants & it was best to get it to a "well-totted" stated first. It will rot down quicker if you take it out of the bags - like an ordinary compost heap it needs air, so I would take it out & make a pile that you can turn occasionally to speed up the process.
Nothing to add, apart from the title of the thread made me belly chuckle - thanks!
You could trench it in deeply if you want raised beds.
Otherwise, like good wine, it matures and will be better next year.
If you are not setting corn for a month. Dig some in the bed where the corn is going it wll help retain moisture etc ..Just rake in some blood fish and bone prior to planting your corn, this will replace any nitrogen that the hoss muck uses as it breaks down ...