Too much poo???

Hi every one.

Ive just built my first veggi box! Its about 8x4 and 200mm deep strait into the existing soil.
Once the box was in place I turned the existing lawn over removing any weeds and grass to attempt to fluff the soil up a bit. I then had about half a ton of soil which id been keeping at the bottom of the garden from another project, this went on top bringing the level just over half way. Seeing that the soil level was still short and that I had every intention of turning some horse manure into it as a soil improver anyway, I went to a friend that keeps horses and got enough to bring the level up. Without really thinking about it I then filled the rest of the box up. Upon trying to turn it in to the soil Ive started to realize that there is rather a lot of manure in there.......is this a problem?

Thanks

Tom

 

Hi Tom,

Was it rotted or fresh poo?

 

If it's fresh you've got the making of a hot bed.

 

Bit of both.

 

Hot bed?

 

It will grow an excellent crop of spuds.

 

I have a raised bed that is practically 100% pooh. Extremely old pooh that is black and crumbly bearing no similarity to the 'usual' stuff but I have no complaints about the standard of veg' it produces. Cheers, Tony.

 

Click on the Zigskitchengarden link in my signature, got a hot bed in there

 

Like Tony, I have a bed at home that is 99% well rotted manure and its fine and grows great produce. If your concerned at all you can create planting holes, dig a hole fill with compost and plant into that for this year, next year you need not worry as the manure will be aged and the worms will have done a fair ammount of mixing it up for you.

Steve...

 

Cool , thanks every one.