Stable Manure

[Ricardo]

Living as I do, not far from Epsom, there are several stables hereabouts, most of which give away bags of free stable manure.
I grabbed a couple of bags which, since they are not rotted yet, I was intending to scatter over my veg patch in preparation for next years failures.
Now, the maure when I turned it out looks to contain a lot of wood shavings as well as the horse poo.
Should I separate the poo (now there's a job to look forward to) and discard the sawdust or just dig it all in together?
I'm assuming the rain, the frost and the worms will do a lot of the donkey (or should that be horse?) work for me between now and March.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Ricardo,

Have you checked where the muck came from with particular reference to ask if any weed killer has been used on the pasture.

This can transfer through the horse to your plot and ruin it for growing purpose's.

One of our peeps who has suffered will be along to explain in more detail

Colin

[PyreneesPlot]

Something tells me horses in Epsom only gallop on grass and don't actually get to eat it?

[The Large One]

iv'e now decided i will not use horse manure on my plot
managed to get some real nice looking manure from a local guy, no weedkiller but must have been loaded with weed seed
i now have creeping buttercup and all manner of things to spend my next couple of years digging out and weeding around crops
those bags of composted manure from the GC are looking mighty tempting plus full on home made compost from now in

[rustylady]

Living as I do, not far from Epsom, there are several stables hereabouts, most of which give away bags of free stable manure.
I grabbed a couple of bags which, since they are not rotted yet, I was intending to scatter over my veg patch in preparation for next years failures.
Now, the maure when I turned it out looks to contain a lot of wood shavings as well as the horse poo.
Should I separate the poo (now there's a job to look forward to) and discard the sawdust or just dig it all in together?
I'm assuming the rain, the frost and the worms will do a lot of the donkey (or should that be horse?) work for me between now and March.

I would add your manure to your compost heap. Don't worry about separating the sawdust and wood shavings, they will all rot down in time.

[VirginVegGrower]

Something tells me horses in Epsom only gallop on grass and don't actually get to eat it?

It can be in the haylage fed to horses and ponies.