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Old 15-10-2012, 02:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Manure too fresh?

Martin Brown wrote in
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On 14/10/2012 17:14, Baz wrote:
I have had 40+ open bags of horse manure delivered today, Sunday. So
it is not quite retail.
It is not rotted and looks like it was "laid" 3 or 4 weeks ago.
Ok, I got it for free but was wondering what I am going to do with
it. I think it is not weedkiller infested because there is some grass
or something growing in some of them.
What to do? I don't have a big enough area to compost it.


Why not? Stack it into a roughly 2m cube.


In the bedroom perhaps? When I say I have no area, I mean I have no room in
the garden.

Or give away to your other allotment holders the stuff you can't use.


I now see that you think the dung is at the allotment, sorry, it's at home
in the garden. I would not give anything to the existing tenants, I would
to the newer ones. It's them and us, and they will not let their childish
attitude go. They have had it too good for too long. It is not the fault of
ours that we have been allowed an allotment because some other greedy sods
who have broken their tenancy agreement have been evicted. And I never said
anything at the tanancy meeting. I held out my hand and was blackballed.

ISTR you have plenty of burnt bridges to sort out.

Which bridges are these? You know more about me than I do!

Dig it in or bin it?



Baz


Dig it in if you must but be careful what you grow next year. Far
better to let it compost/ferment for a while and then you can get a
nice crop of mushrooms off some of it as well. You should compost
*some* for that purpose. Decent heat source as well if you do it
right.


Baz