Thread: When is manure safe?

Thanks for the link, Lloyd. Good discussion, and I found the link to OTA particularly helpful. I shouldn't tell you this, since you're in Manitoba, but my current concern is for root veggies I'm growing this winter. I haven't added any manure yet, and now I won't since I'm not sure how fresh it is. I'll just get a good head of steam going on that big pile outside! My favorite sentence from the other...

Short of complex testing, I guess there isn't a sure fire way to know . But here is a not bad thread on almost the same subject. It is mostly referring to food crops so if you are doing flowers it might be different. Lloyd

The USDA says you should not apply manures to soil that will be growing food crops for a minimum of 90 days before harvesting those crops, 3 months. Manures applied to soils, even if tilled in, produce that distictive animal manure odor which is nutrients escaping to the atmosphere. Properly composting manures helps capture, and stabilize, the nutrients in manures so more are available to the plants. If the soil does not have adequate levels...