Is this manure well rotted?

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  1. Slerski

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    Hi
    I'm worried that this manure isn't well rotted because there are bits in it although it doesn't smell. Could someone help please!

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    Welcome to Gardeners Corner :sign0016:

    Bit hard to tell from a pic, one way to find out is to feel if the bag is heating up as fresh stuff gets very hot :)
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Looks rotten to me, no straw visible or shavings?
     
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      Welcome to GC Slerski:spinning:...if it doesn't smell it should be fine:thumbsup:
       
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        Thanks for the responses. I was just worried that it does have long bits in it which could be straw. I just don't know what it should look like!
         
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          If it doubt, pile it up for 6 weeks, how many bags you got? :)
           
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            20! Really wanted to use it now though...
             
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            Put your hands in the middle of the bags, if it's not hot then it's rotted :)

            I use fresh stuff to make hotbeds, it'd be steaming in this weather.
             
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            Visually, it looks cooked :)
             
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            Looks scrumptious to me. I'd say you've got the real deal there,
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            In the olden days country house gardeners used to dig out the coldframes, put a thick layer of fresh horse muck in and seal with some of the soil to keep them a little warmer. Good enough to grow pineapples I believe?
             
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              Good morning youngster's :heehee: I was there in the olden days:old:in a big country house and used that method many times:smile:
               
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                Did you use it in the cold frames as well? :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                 
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                  My apologies Slerski for wandering off topic my friend:smile:

                  This was my mode of transport in them hard but most enjoyable days,you must remember them Shiney my friend,when you had to get up to turn the 12 inch black and white t.v's over,mind you it only had 2 channels:lunapic 130165696578242 5:

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                    (Sorry, also off topic :sad:)

                    12 inch!!!! :hate-shocked: You must have been posh :heehee:

                    We didn't get a TV until the mid fifties and that was a second hand Ekco 9 inch with a magnifier fixed over the front. We had to go up the road to a friend's house to watch The Quatermass Experiment. They filmed it not far away from us at Ally Pally.
                     
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