Here's a tip. Learn when to stop! Today I shifted around 2-3 tons of the stuff from the stud farm to my allotment. Started at 0630hrs and finished around 1730hrs.
Its fresh, it stinks, I stink, I've been bitten to b***ery by horse flys and I have no idea how long I need to keep this very significant pile of staw, pee and "horse apples" before I can dig it in.
On a seperate subject, my local zoo (Paradise Wildlife Park - Herts) offered me some tiger bi-product i.e their bedding. I can safely say that the local moggies and foxes have given my lotties a very wide birth :-\
crikey, bet everything grows well next year, it'll have no excuse now!
reminds me of last winter when i barrowed what felt like endless barrows of (free) horse muck from the stables at the end of the road. didn't know the road was soooo long, and got longer with each barrow. mind you, had great fun digging around the the middle of the hugest mountain of muck ever, literally climbing right down into the middle and steaming up my glasses!
however, met a mum and her kids coming out of the school, kids saying 'cor, awful stink, eurgh etc', and me saying 'oh, it's not that bad!' to which the mum replied 'yes it is', giving me a very wide berth!
pumpkins doing well this year on it though!
Hey Phil, you are putting us newbies off...2-3tonnes of horse muck... that's a lot of sh..ovelling. :o
I like the Tiger left overs idea, I wonder if our local Safari Park would oblige? That would send our domestic/wildlife visitors packing. ;D
Roy ;)
It shouldn't take that long to rot down. Probably three months to six months. It should be ready to dig in next spring. Lovely stuff!