manure-leave it or dig it in?

[nelvis70]

Hello,
I have just covered a 3rd of my plot with a good covering of manure ready for the coming season for my veg. and would like to know if i should leave it lying on top of the soil for now and how long i should let it lie there before i dig it in ready for sowing or could it be dug into the earth now (or rather when the soil has dried out a little, after all the rain!!!) and then left dug into the soil till i'm ready to sow my veg.
Many thanks..
Neil

[nick the grief]

I'd leave it Nelvis but don't amnure all your plot as some crops don't like freshly mucked ground (carrots etc)

[nelvis70]

Thanks Nick

[Benacre]

On sandy Loam or Sand lay on top and let the wums do the work on Clay I would dig it in to space out the pores better.

[JennieAtkinson]

I generally only manure the area that my potatoes are going in and that seems to work fine if you are doing crop rotation.

[supersprout]

I'd add beans (climbing and dwarf), squash, cucumbers, courgettes and marrows to Jennie's spuds for recently manured beds. In the growing season I pull aside the straw mulch between rows of e.g. growing tomatoes, beans, Jerusalem Artichokes, rubub and globe artichokes, sprinkle on manure fresh or well-rotted (not touching stems of growing plants), then put the mulch back on top.