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Gro-Sure Farmyard Manure

ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
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Today I gave my raised beds and large pots and mulching of Gro-Sure Farmyard Manure and to be honest I wasn't quite expecting what came out of the bags.

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Now, never having used Farmyard Manure before, should I be seeing whats in the above picture?.

I know it's organic matter, but this stuff was mixed throughout the entire bag and to be honest I was expecting something completely different.

On Verdun's advice I had initially bought some Chicken Manure Pellets, but like a Numpty I took those back and exchanged them for the Gro-Sure Wood Bits image

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  • pokhimpokhim Posts: 210

    oh dear!!! Well i bought 20 bags of the same stuff last week and it was all fine! That is not a good batch!..

  • ZenjeffZenjeff Posts: 652

    Used gro-sure  before and never had anything like that in it ,noticed HB advertising it for £3 a bag which seems very cheap

  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236

    Looks like I might have been unlucky with this particular batch.

    Just out of curiosity, what should it be like?, I was expecting something similar to a course compost.

    Sheps...image

  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527

    I had some before and that was alright, like pokhim said probably just a bad batch.

    I got some manure last year from a local stable, after getting home it had loads of rubber bits in it from the rubber mat floor, had to seive the lot  image 

  • ZenjeffZenjeff Posts: 652

    Steps Ive used leaving tons this year but the gro sure was very similar here a photo of leaving tons I've just taken to show you

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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236

    Thanks very much, Zenjeff...the manure in your pictures looks just like mine, so maybe not to bad after all.

    Think I was expecting something different, and not something that looks likes a cross between bark chippings and compost.

    Sheps...image

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    I use about 30 to 60 bags of it a year and never had one like that - seems you were unlucky. image

    It normally looks like course compost, as you say you expected.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236

    Hi Bob...both my bags look the same as Zenjeff's, so with yours were there any bits in it like in the above pictures?

  • SmufterSmufter Posts: 12

    I bet whatever it was that passed those had a funny look on it's face....image

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    I've had really good bags, and the odd one that looks like yours. Quality seems to be variable.

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