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Recently Manured ?

NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
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How many months in the past does " recently "  mean ?

Or how long do you have to wait to plant ?

Nutrients......Is there a general based product to add every season

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  • Mel MMel M Posts: 347

    Hi NewBoy2. To what are you referring?image

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Sorry to be crude, but if it still looks like poo, then its too early, if its gone crubly and dosent smell, it should be ok image
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    I meant crumbly ! image
  • Mel MMel M Posts: 347

    Fresh farmyard or stable manure needs to sit for 6 months before use so that the ammonia weakens. Use fresh manure and it will scorch the plant roots. A good general purpose soil improver is chicken manure (pellets.) Don't be tempted to overdo it though, it is quite strong.

    Plants like beans, peas and potatoes should have manure or compost dug in during the previous autumn. Onions just before planting. Carrots do not like freshly manured ground - they will fork. Use general purpose granular feed.

  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813

    Thanks Mel M and every one else

     

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  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Bekkie, I quite like that word you invented; 'crubly', it applies to several people I knowimage

  • Mel MMel M Posts: 347

    A friend on our allotments sprays liquid pigeon manure on his plants. Swears by it. And by the size and number of Butternut squash he has produced it seems to work. 

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Artjak image
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813

    I called Marshalls and they could not give an answer as to my question..."What is recently manured "

    I will manure now and sow in January at the earliest

    If anyone has more info please let me know

    Many thanks friends

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  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    What are you planning to sow new boy? most things will do best started in pots, modules etc.

    Your soil prep will very much depend on what you want to grow image,however, dont get too hung up on all of this stuff, there is no "wrong" really, you can often do something totally opposite to what the books say and have great results. image
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