Horse manure

[Jay-ell]

You could always use the fresh manure to make a hotbed and grow melons. I'm sure that they did that last year on Beechgrove. May need to pop a cover over the bed to help with humidity.

I've dug in a mix of unrotted, semi rotted and well rotted into my squash and bean beds (about 6 inches worth). Guess I'll see how well it works later on in the year.

[Scoot]

^^^^^ Yes but if you are getting muck and straw bedding you will need to ask about the straw, too. If you are just picking up the lumps you will need to mix in some other fibrous material to get a good break down - bean stems/sweet corn stems/shredded cardboard. If I pooh pick from my horses, I only collect really fresh stuff, so it' still really moist and stick it in a darlek/plastic bag with lots of mixed waste or I put put it in a bucket with water and then water the slug onto the beds as an immediate feed. The fibre in the muck then sits on the soil and rots in over the season (I don't do this much - prefer the first method).

I'm not getting straw bedding though. It's straight out of a field. I've decided anyway from others comments in this thread, it'll be going in a bag for some to rot down and some will be going straight onto the garden and then dug in at the end of the year. Thanks for all the comments.

[Jonny.D]

^^^^^ Yes but if you are getting muck and straw bedding you will need to ask about the straw, too. If you are just picking up the lumps you will need to mix in some other fibrous material to get a good break down - bean stems/sweet corn stems/shredded cardboard. If I pooh pick from my horses, I only collect really fresh stuff, so it' still really moist and stick it in a darlek/plastic bag with lots of mixed waste or I put put it in a bucket with water and then water the slug onto the beds as an immediate feed. The fibre in the muck then sits on the soil and rots in over the season (I don't do this much - prefer the first method).

Do you mean "Sludge" ??

[Bigmallly]

If "M" wants to water her slugs then that's her prerogative..................

[marchogaeth]

I'm not getting straw bedding though. It's straight out of a field. I've decided anyway from others comments in this thread, it'll be going in a bag for some to rot down and some will be going straight onto the garden and then dug in at the end of the year. Thanks for all the comments.

That was the main thrust of my post - if it's only raw manure you need to include some fibrous material in the bag.

[marchogaeth]

Do you mean "Sludge" ??

Guess! .................

[roitelet]

If you are going to use it straight on the compost it is better to turn it into a sludge with water so there are no large lumps.