@Plantminded Reading the advert it is probably just farmyard manure, plus green waste, so the manure is probably just stable manure, which may or may not contain weed seeds and chemicals.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
We've used fresh, well-rotted & GC bagged over the years but mainly in a deep trench prepared well in advance for sweet peas or mixed in when creating a new herbaceous bed several weeks before any planting. Can't say we've had any more weeds than we normally have but then again we've never done a controlled experiment. With the uncontrollable number of dandelion and willow herb seeds landing in the garden day and night I've sort of given up worrying too much about weeds until I can see them. Having said that, I am careful what I put in the compost heaps.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Just a note that some products labelled "farmyard mix" contain no manure at all. So if buying bags of growing medium, it's good to check and ask what is exactly is in it and where it comes from.
I always thought the farmyard mix would contain different 'manures' such as pig and cow slurry whereas stable manure is going to be horse only.
Not sure if one type of 'manure' is any better than the other?
Certainly the bags of farmyard manure I've bought from a garden centre seem to have undergone a degree of processing in that there was a much more regular constituency compared with the rotted stable manure aquired from neighbours.
I imagine it might also have gone through a steam sterilization process like they do with green waste processing which should kill off weed seeds.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Just a note that some products labelled "farmyard mix" contain no manure at all. So if buying bags of growing medium, it's good to check and ask what is exactly is in it and where it comes from.
What on earth does it have in it @fire? Which brands are so misleading?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Sylvagrow Farmyard" is vegan and has nothing to do with 'farmyards'. No manure - which I think is deeply misleading. It's "made from anaerobic digestate which is a by-product of renewable energy production." It's often listed under the "manure" sections on websites (understandably).
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https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/using-fresh-manure-in-gardens.htm
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not sure if one type of 'manure' is any better than the other?
Certainly the bags of farmyard manure I've bought from a garden centre seem to have undergone a degree of processing in that there was a much more regular constituency compared with the rotted stable manure aquired from neighbours.
I imagine it might also have gone through a steam sterilization process like they do with green waste processing which should kill off weed seeds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.