What Manure

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

Well the allotment has been smarten up,so knows it's time to get digging and chucking some manure about. What do you folks use manure wise? Is there any veg that doesn't want any plus is there any veg that likes loads? Thanks

[jok 3,035]

Glad you got your plot smartened up Mr TP. I can only generalise as don't like being shot down from a great height but as a rule cow muck is by far the best. It needs being a couple of years old and as straw free as the local farmer can find. If you think about it, what does he do with muck?? (farmers ain't often wrong). He drives up and down with the muck spreader, leaves that for a while to soak into the ground and then plows. Why should we be any different. Clean all your garden and literally cover it in manure. The winter will take all the goodness into the soil and when you rotovate or dig over it's ready to plant. Not only that the muck takes the place of all the shite talked about of carpets etc. Don't see many carpetted farmers fields now do we?? Back to vegetables. Brassicas DO NOT LIKE soft ground. It needs being as hard as you can. Root crops on the other hand love soft ground because they can send the tap root through without being interrupted and thence long tapered roots. All your other stuff thrive on well mucked ground and you should be getting 2/3 crops a season. Any rate on it's all a learning curve and everyone either thinks they know it all or don't make mistakes. ME. Just pulled up all my Winter brussels, cauliflower and cabbage because I didn't think. Hey Ho. Plenty of leeks to go at.

[lurchers 2,596]

What do you think of that chicken manure pellets do they do the job ok put the goodness back into the soil and lime.

[jok 3,035]

My immediate thoughts are that you have to buy them. Cost enough already to run an allotment.

[taz2010 1,297]

i find horse manure is very good imo

[David Aiken 253]

Well rotted Horse manure. I used 4 trailer fulls on my 8` x 30` plot which was over 500kg. This gave me a bed of 12" to 14" But this was 2 years old and well rotted!

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Chicken manure is great, but we also have plenty of pig manure here. All straw free. I'd only use horse manure if its from horses on untreated paddocks. It affects root veg

[Yokel Matt 918]

I keep between 6 and 8 hens and use the Balfour method which gives me around a tonne of manure a year each spring. Variety is the spice of life though, so long as it's well rotted (and free) it goes on there.

[foxdropper 17,092]

Never heard so much shit .

[jok 3,035]

Kind of agree Foxdropper. Not sure if you are taking the piss or what but what a load of shite.

[BIGLURKS 874]

My papa always told me chicken shit for tomatoes sheep shit for your cabbages and peas and horse shit for your carrots and cow shit and horse shit for your tatties just something he told me years ago surprised I remembered

[jok 3,035]

Clown.

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

Thanks for advice folks,it was a geniue question its all new to me ?

[The one 8,395]

Cow manure is the best we can get a trailer load for £25 , horse is good but it's mainly straw and you have to leave it to break down for a while maybe a year and hen pen is what I would call too hot to use straight off the farm

[lost scouse 46]

i was told not to use sheep or goat muck because of i think its called scally