Hi everyone, we’re new to allotment gardening. We’ve built several raised beds and ordered 50 bags of well-rotted horse manure to put in them.
The supplier is a regular one who is recommended by others on our site. She said that this batch has been rotted for nearly a year and is fine to plant straight into.
It isn’t what I was expecting – I thought we’d get something that was crumbly and finer than this quite cloddy consistency. I checked with her again and she said it was fine, perhaps it’s too dry if it’s feeling lumpy.
Any thoughts from the group? I have a batch of vegetable plants ready to go in but I don’t want to scorch them. Also, I don’t really know how to plant into something so lumpy!
Wondering if I should leave these beds to rot down further under tarp over the summer, build some new beds for my plants and fill them with shop-bought bags instead.
Wwyd? Tia 🙏🏻
by Specialist_Gene_4094
2 Comments
Are you planning on mixing it with soil?
I think you might be miscommunicating with the supplier. I reckon they’re assuming you’re mixing the manure into soil, but you’re using it 100% manure.
If you mix this into turned soil it should be fine. On it’s own, not so much.
manure is a mix-in soil enhancer. get the shovel going