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Use animal manure and green manure together?
Panoply
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Is there any way to use well rotted animal manure as well as green manure? I've got beds free and have seeds for field beans and grazing rye that I would like to use, but I've also noticed animal manure going free and would like to try it out. Can I use them both at the same time over winter?
Would I lay the manure over the top and sow seeds into it, or sow the seeds and then lay manure over, to ensure the seeds roots are going down into my clay soil? Don't want to waste a season by making a mistake!
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using both seems like overkill, but if you really want, I would rotovate or fork the well rotted FYM in first and then sow seeds on top. If you sow the seeds and then lay the FYM on top I doubt the seeds will germinate.
Thanks Fidgetbones.
Perhaps it is overkill, but at least one of the beds is unlikely to be this clear again so this is my best opportunity to enrich it before it becomes awkwardly full with bulbs and perennials. The green manure seeds are getting a bit old now, and I'd like to use them before they lose their viability, so everything has fallen to now.
Thank you for your advice, and I shall do as you suggest. Now just to work out how to transport all this manure without my car getting filthy!