how expensive is your manure?

[The Allotment Shed]

I/we pay £50 for 7 tonnes of cow muck. That's delivered to our site from 15 miles away. It's top quality stuff and worth every penny I could get horse muck for free but it's nowhere near as good as the cow muck.
I'd deffo say that you would be paying 100% more than I'd be prepared to pay for horse crap!!

[bubblewrap]

But how many journeys & how much petrol would it take to get five tones?

P.S. five tones only does half my plot(300 square yards) so I do one half each year.

[Compo72]

A local farm near to us as well has a bin bag of rotted manure for a quid

[vikkib]

I see a fair few places near me with rubble sacks of manure for between 50p and £1 a bag... no idea how well rotted it is.

I've been lucky enough to get some from freecycle... a friend and I just went and bagged up and bought it back so just our time and petrol costs there.

We now get some fresh stuff delivered to our plots too which we're not being charged for at the moment. Not sure if the person who delivers it charges a small amount for fuel or not.

[chris]

I've had 10 tonnes (yes, 10) of horse manure delivered for £25. It took me a wee while to shift it off the path, and I ached for about a week.

[tel]

Hi,
Well by a majority count it looks like I would be ripped off if I had bought some, just another good reason for this forum!!!

[Glutton4...]

...I have been quoted £160 for approx 2 tons (2 big builders bags) of well rotted horse manure is this too much...?

If it's well-rotted I wouldn't feel bad having to pay for it...

But certainly not that much! Sorry, I didn't make that point clear.

Personally, I've always given it away, but believe it or not, most people are too lazy to come and bag it up, they all want it ready-packed - AND they never bring the ruddy bags back! A 20kg feed sack-full is usually 50p - add that up!

[Two_Sheds]

Just wondered how much grapes are paying for their manure?

Don't use it, never have, in 17 years of growing veg.

I do make garden compost & grow green manures though, so £1.50 for a pack of GM seed

[mothhawk]

But certainly not that much! Sorry, I didn't make that point clear.

Personally, I've always given it away, but believe it or not, most people are too lazy to come and bag it up, they all want it ready-packed - AND they never bring the ruddy bags back! A 20kg feed sack-full is usually 50p - add that up!

That's so true G4! People say " can I have some of your manure?" "Sure, help yourself, any time" - kiss of death, those 2 words.

When I managed a pony stud, a local farmer used to take our muck heap away once a year to spread on his potato fields, and he gave us a couple of round straw bales in exchange. He grew fabulous potatoes

[out in the cold]

My colleague is a farmer's wife, so we are given as much as we can shift.

I have seen signs at the side of the road saying £1.50 per sack. I assume a sack is what maybe 25 to 30 kg???

[wellywoo]

I use muck we make from our chicken and rabbits as well as well rotted mower clippings and leafs (I am a gardener by trade so have plenty of clippings)

[binley100]

Don't forget to test for aminopryalid residue ......and don't think just cos you've tested it once it'll be fine . Test every batch you get just in case anythings changed.....

[Feral007]

Don't forget to test for aminopryalid residue ......and don't think just cos you've tested it once it'll be fine . Test every batch you get just in case anythings changed.....

We're still buying in hay for the horses to produce the manure, so still costs too much, but we do get to ride them as well

But once I get the paddocks seeded with native seed and we don't have to feed as much, it will get much cheaper!

[Lolarentt]

£35/£45 per trailer load depending on its pedigree

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I get mine free, but - I have to agree a mutually convenient time, drive to the farm, take a fork, sacks, gloves and boots with me.

It's hot work, but all exercise eh! Reminds me I should be making arrangements to get some more.