Been shovelling manure all afternoon!

[Claire72]

Have been given a trailer load of well rotted manure today, so have spent all afternoon trying to prioritise where it was going, although I have a possibility of more next week.
So far I have put some over my rhubarb, (its just popping it's head out of the ground, so just put a thin layer over it, is that ok?) around my blackcurrants, and nearly covered one of my empty beds. I had to stop in the end as it got dark and I needed to cook tea for the kids.
I'm hoping to get some more on that bed tomorrow after work, then to cover my next bed too.
Oh, and I put a couple of forkfuls in my compost bin too!

[binley100]

I think maybe the rhubarb would prefer to be surrounded rather than covered ....just remember not to put it where you'll be planting roots as it'll make them fork......

[bubblewrap]

I'm always in the manure it's just the depth that differs.

[Mikey]

If you've got another load coming, I'll leave now. me and my barrow should be with you by next week.

[TonyF]

I had a trailer load dropped off yesterday, part of the local bartering system that we have going down here. And managed to get it all on two of my raised beds this afternoon. More coming in the next few days and will be having some fresh in a few weeks time for the melons and other courges. Happy days, we must be odd getting so excited about hoss poo !!

[Mikey]

Well lets be honest, if you can put one thing into your soil, that improves its structure, increases yields, and I think flavour, Its worth getting excited about.

[taff]

possibly the only place i can say i love poo and not get a second glance...

[jackie j]

We get free manure delivered for free to the lottie site, its fresh but I have been putting it in my compost bin to rot down till the autumn. I did put some last autumn on my potato patch and left it on the top, no weeds have come through and I have just dug it in.

[Claire72]

If you've got another load coming, I'll leave now. me and my barrow should be with you by next week.

Lol, feel free, but wouldnt fancy your journey home!!!!

[Florence Fennel]

Well done Claire, you'll have some lovely veg.

[splatcat]

you want manure? shame you didnt live locally to me!!

I have a huugge pile festering away in my field, its 12 months old, and free to anyone who collects, (i have 2 piles to keep the gardeners happy, a new pile of fresh and one from last year, rotting)

[zeezeezed]

Nothing like shovelling horse poo for a workout Claire!

I was doing it all afternoon on Saturday loading it. A friend has some lovely stuff and gives it away free if you put it in the tractor trailer for him to deliver.

He brought it around this afternoon, but despite my advice to keep to the egde of the lottie plot, he decided not to and got stuck!!!!

The OH and I had to reload it into wheelbarrows and had relay races across the fields with it before it got dark!

Still done now and nothing a radox bath wont sort out!

[Hilary B]

When we first kept pigs, the muck went under the currant and goosberry bushes, the only answer to the nettles! As long as we mulched with pig poo every 2 years, no netles (of course as soon as we were late the nettles grew stronger than ever......)

[blue411]

I never thought i'd say this but i always feel great after shovelling manure, apart from a good work out it feels good to know what the results will bring

[Mikey]

I'm a happy camper today. I had a small load, about 1 1/2 tonnes delivered yesterday, from a lovely unknown man on Freecycle. He doesn't know it yet, but he's become my new best friend.