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Responses to my earlier posting about manure (many thanks to those who answered) reveal I have dug fresh, acidic manure into two of my previously perfect raised beds.  :-[

I suppose it'll be a couple of months before I plant anything in them. Will it have rotted down and be ok by then, or will it fry my broad beans, onions and lettuces alive?

So that's one mistake I have learned by!

Stork.

The beans and onions should be ok, perhaps when planting out your lettuces, put a small amount of compost in the planting hole?

However, bear in mind that the manure you have dug in is being processed very effectively by the worms etc, and should produce excellent soil. Gardening is not an exact science, and we are all learning all the time, me more than most sometimes  :)

I wouldn't worry unduly, if you have bought the seeds sow them in pots then plant out the young seedlings when they're ready, they have two chances ::) so don't waste the season, ;) although I thought onions didn't like freshly manured soil. ???

Give it as long as possible, as said above sow things in seed trays/pots and transplant when big enough. The worms have got a couple of months to sort it out.

I think that I have just done exactly the same.  Had tonnes of manure delivered and have emptied most of it into my new raised beds, planning to cover with top soil but after reading this post realised that I may have set myself back a few months!!

QuoteResponses to my earlier posting about manure (many thanks to those who answered) reveal I have dug fresh, acidic manure into two of my previously perfect raised beds. 

I suppose it'll be a couple of months before I plant anything in them. Will it have rotted down and be ok by then, or will it fry my broad beans, onions and lettuces alive?

So that's one mistake I have learned by!

Stork.

Oooops! Never Mind, worse things happen at sea!  ::)

Happy Growing, Dan

I don't think you should worry unduly. just be careful what you plant there. Put "crop rotation" in search and read the links.