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I've been doing a happy dance for the last few weeks as a wonderful person with two horses has begged me to remove all the horse muck from her paddocks 
so we now go once a week and fill up our trailer and bring it back to heap up here. The horses are grass and hay fed only, and live outside so the muck is picked off the field and only has a little hay mixed in with it.
But becaue it is fresh(ish) can I -
Put unrotted manure around dormant fruit trees and bushes on the grounds that it'll be rotted by the time the plants becomes active again?
Heap it on the veg beds as they become emptied, again even though it isn't very rotted, ready for the spring? I hope this is a yes, becaue I have ...
And indeed how long does it take to break down as reading the internet suggests anything from 6 weeks to many, many months. I've never had access to anything but the bagged or the occasional load of very well rotted stuff before. Hence my ignorance
so we now go once a week and fill up our trailer and bring it back to heap up here. The horses are grass and hay fed only, and live outside so the muck is picked off the field and only has a little hay mixed in with it. But becaue it is fresh(ish) can I -
Put unrotted manure around dormant fruit trees and bushes on the grounds that it'll be rotted by the time the plants becomes active again?
Heap it on the veg beds as they become emptied, again even though it isn't very rotted, ready for the spring? I hope this is a yes, becaue I have ...
And indeed how long does it take to break down as reading the internet suggests anything from 6 weeks to many, many months. I've never had access to anything but the bagged or the occasional load of very well rotted stuff before. Hence my ignorance
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