"Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly-
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"Billy" wrote in message
"Zootal" wrote:

There is a bark place down the road that sells mushroom compost and
steer
compost. Is this stuff good for the garden? Can I use it like compost
and
heap it on the ground around plants and trees?

Manure should be at least six months old before use.

I disagree strongly with this. I use manure pretty fresh and always
have.
It just depends on where you use it.

and how lucky you feel ;-)
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/liv.../cwa01s11.html

Luck has nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned. If you looked with
any degree of closeness at the chart on that site, you would never garden if
you were worried about either pathogens or luck. That site says that Water
is a better place for survival of E. coli than manure. No-one I know can
garden without water, and as David H-S says, the world is a dirty place. If
ya number's up, it's up as far as I'm concerned and till it's up, I garden
and I haul fresh manure.