Cheap manure ideas please

UPDATE:

found a listing for free manure in my area on eBay. Listed with pick up only, but I contacted the owner and she kindly agreed to drop a few bags round for a small fee to cover her fuel costs. Delivered 11 bags of extremely well-rotten horse poo this afternoon! Bags are around 50 L each so I'm over the moon! :happydance:

Nothing to compare with the Homebase dung which says "50 liters when filled" but I measured the bags, they are 65x45x8 cm each which adds up to ONLY 25 LITRES!!! :gaagh:I mean, even if the manure supposedly shrank by a half since it was bagged, how come the plastic bags shrank as well?

Anyone up for taking on Homebase?

 

grass/lawn is pretty hardy and not too fussy about soil conditions, so I would rather use the maunure and compost on the beds

experience has taught me that fresh farm manure from horses and cows have loads of weed seeds

if you are starting lawn from scratch, loosen the soil, spread the lawn seed, roll flat then apply some topsoil and water well

in this weather, the grass seed should germinate in 10-14 days ...

water regulary and dont mow until the grass is at least 3 inches high, then ensure that your lawnmower blades are sharp, and cut off the top third

in spring, apply a granular lawn fertilizer and repeat every 6 weeks and mow/water regulary)

also would be a good idea to buy an older cyclinder lawnmower with 8-10 blades ... in winter, these cost very cheap on ebay ... have it serviced (under £100) and regulary change the oil/spark plug .... will be a good investment

In South Africa, we used to buy a manure called guano plus .... this was seagull manure mixed with granular fertilizer

was really good, and lawn actually turned blue in colour when applied (think it has a very high nitrogen content).... downside is that it smelled vile for a couple of days

have not seen any here in the UK, but have seen that some countries have Guano manure that is bat excretement

 

I'm not really planning to have a lawn,
it's a lawn at mo but I'm converting it into a proper garden.
Stage 1 is a border and some shrubs in the middle of the garden.
Stage 2 (might not get round to this year) will be digging up the rest and planting bulbs and meadow-type plants (wild dianthus, campanulas, some stuff I dug up from the wood, clover, etc.) and I'm not planning on having much lawn grass at all unless it self-sews. I'm certainly NOT planning on mowing it at all, I'm a vociferous anti-mow activist! :pickflower:

 

I have a picture in my head of a methane producing plant running a generator!!:D