Can I plant direct into well rotted manure

[juslh]

I have a largish area of rock hard clay based soil on my allotment. It is as good as ungdiggable at the mo since it has dried out and I can barely get a fork/spade into it. Could I just cover it in a deep layer of manure and plant into that? Then dig in the winter perhaps? I had hoped to rotovate but I think a rotovator would just bounce off it at the moment! Husband keeps saying lets just leave it til next year, but I really want to do something with the space.

[Thelma Sanders]

I know you can grow things like courgettes and squashes in it, but not sure about anything else.

[Bigmallly]

I currently have Onions, Leeks, Beetroot, Spuds, Peas, Broad Beans & Tomatoes all growing in neat part rotted manure & luckily they are doing fine

[polc1410]

Hot boxers grow into neat raw manure through a layer of soil. Even root veg will grow but may fork. Genuinely well rotted is really just posh compost...

[kris1960]

I filled a raised bed with well rotted manure in November and planted broad bean seeds and transplanted some pak choi seedlings on top. Pak choi eaten long since and broadbeans flowering this week.