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Manure for clay lawn - too fresh?
dpptaylor
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Hi all,
Am new to the world of gardening so apologies for any silly questions in advance My family and I moved into our dream doer upper home 6 or 7 months ago and have been slowly clearing the garden ever since making more and more space for the kids to, in time, run around in. We finally cleared the hugely overgrown bramble etc, and this week I've dug out and de-weeded a large section of our clay soil ready to put some grass seed down.
I read that working in some manure works well to help the clay soil before flattening and seeding and bought some 'garden manure' from a local household, but on inspection it isn't fully rotted yet. See pics.
My question is simply whether it is worth me using the manure or have I just wasted my time and should get shot of it. There are different opinions on various websites as to whether it can be used for grass when not fully composted (I understand it wouldn't be great for veg plots etc) or whether it might add further weeds or provide no real benefit, so I thought I'd ask the pros.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Am new to the world of gardening so apologies for any silly questions in advance My family and I moved into our dream doer upper home 6 or 7 months ago and have been slowly clearing the garden ever since making more and more space for the kids to, in time, run around in. We finally cleared the hugely overgrown bramble etc, and this week I've dug out and de-weeded a large section of our clay soil ready to put some grass seed down.
I read that working in some manure works well to help the clay soil before flattening and seeding and bought some 'garden manure' from a local household, but on inspection it isn't fully rotted yet. See pics.
My question is simply whether it is worth me using the manure or have I just wasted my time and should get shot of it. There are different opinions on various websites as to whether it can be used for grass when not fully composted (I understand it wouldn't be great for veg plots etc) or whether it might add further weeds or provide no real benefit, so I thought I'd ask the pros.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Dan
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Personally l think the manure wouldn't do the ground any good, but l am not a lawn expert by any means. I would stack it a corner somewhere to do a bit more rotting.
Bumping this up for (hopefully) some more expert advice 🤞
Much appreciated