adding manure?

When is the best tme to add some manure into the soil?
Also is mushroom cmpost any good? saw some at local garden centre
Thanks

 

Basically pooh the answer is, anytime, but only use well rotted manure. Just spread it on top of the soil as a mulch and let the worms do the work of taking it into the soil.:thumb: And mushroom is very good, you may even get a crop or two of mushrooms.:gnthb:

 

Mushroom compost will normally include Lime - so just be careful that your soil will benefit from Lime - at the least its unlikely to be beneficial every year (to the same area f ground)

 

Pooh, Use the mushroom compost, there is very little lime, trust me.:thumb:

 

"there is very little lime,"

You've tested it then, have you??

 

No, more importantly, I`ve USED it.

 

Does mushroom compost add any nutrients to the soil or is it just a "conditioner".

 

I always thought that most fungi grew in slightly acidic conditions? Anyway, I shall be spreading my matured 'oss muck as soon as the ground thaws. I wouldn't count on there being much nutrients in expired 'shroom compost, but it makes good soil conditioner.

 

As the UNOFFICIAL"Norfolk Olympic champion horse poo user" i use freshly meadow-picked horsepoo by the trailer full. As it goes nowhere near a STABLE (and therefore not mixed with pee soaked straw) I use it almost immediately it is delivered as soil conditioner and mulch. Good luck.

 

right so is it ikay to mix both together?

 

I would think it is. Just take notice of what MOL says about stable sweepings and wet straw or shavings. If you have any of these in your manure let it rot down in the composter!

 

no good for lager then???