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very stinky Gro-More manure

FireFire Posts: 19,096
in Problem solving
I've just had a delivery of Gromore bags that really reek of urea. I'm thinking this means the manure is still too fresh to bag up. Usually it has no scent at all. The foxes will go nuts. I'm planning to cover it in chicken wire until I use it as I have to store it outside. 
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Your neighbours will love you😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It shouldn't be like that, eh? It should be aged enough not to smell, @Lyn?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Do you mean the fertiliser Growmore, pellets, or bagged manure?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    If it smells like urea then it's likely to burn any plants it touches. I thought urea broke down quite quickly though so it must have been very fresh when bagged up. I can't see how it has been rotted to a high enough temperature if it still smells though?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Sorry, Gro-Sure. 50 Litres. Bags of. I think if I put it down, foxes will rip the garden to bits.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think they might. I’ve had other MPC smell like that, it does go of, been bagged up too quick. Can you tip it into a safe place for a while, 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I have stored the bags of manure in a closed compost bin, but it is still reeking across many gardens. It seems straight out of the back end of a horse and soaked in urea. Could you suggest ways to speed up the neutralising process?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We get pure horse poo from the farm, straight out of the horse, we just put it in the compost bin and cover it with other materials,  grass, paper, card, twigs,  it soon goes off. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    I find that keeping manure in confined spaces just prolongs the smelly stage ... open the bags/bins and let the air get at it ... or even use it ... spreading it about/digging it in will soon get rid of the pong.

    (I’m a farmer’s daughter ... if there’s one thing I knows about it’s pongy manure 😂)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2019
    Grow-Sure call the product "farmyard manure". The stuff I received doesn't smell like any horse or cow poo I ever encountered, which to me has a grassy, earthiness. This stuff is too foul a smell to leave in the open - like a cesspit in the sun. A mix of old urine and burnt plastic. I'll cover it wood chip and wait six months and see what happens.
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