Pig Manure

[terryd 8,681]

Any thoughts on pig manure for the plot ? I have access to some on a hard standing by the road side so i can bag it easy whopping heap going back years. Had a quick google and it all seems doom and gloom about it.

The pigs are kept indoors and fed pellets not sure if they get scraps or not

[Caravan Monster 323]

I ended up by accident with about 3 matbro buckets of mainly pig manure on here last winter. I dug it in anyway. The pig muck was maybe 3 or 4 years old and the ground in the garden had not been grown on for a few years. Plants from the green house grew ok, but betroot and radishes were the only things I could get going from seed, struggled to get the soil fine enough and spring onion seeds failed. Not sure if the manure was good or bad really.

 

 

[terryd 8,681]

Seems to have been an odd year for germination a few people have had problems on our plots this year. I think I will give it a go on the plot the spuds are going in next year and see what happens

[sky10 11]

stick to horse cows or sheep manure pigs manure a no no

[Tiercel 6,986]

Seems to have been an odd year for germination a few people have had problems on our plots this year. I think I will give it a go on the plot the spuds are going in next year and see what happens

We have just finished a batch of potatoes in work that were fertilised with pig manure. The only way I could fault the potatoes is that the manure burnt the skins. They had burning patches on the skin that looked like common scab. But, I would think that the manure was fresh as he uses it every year to fertilise his potatoes. Older stuff should be fine.

 

TC