manure

Yes, so long as you don't plant anything at the same time - the manure will be too fresh.

Keep an eye out for weeds.

Are you sure the manure is not contaminated with herbicide?

Just my opinion - manure is over-rated and goes back to a time when cottagers and farmers had too much of the blooming stuff so they spread it on the land to get rid of it with the side bonus that it fed the soil a bit.

Far better in my opinion to grow green manure crops and hoe them off a week or so before planting new crops.

Far easier to carry a pocket full of seeds to the allotment than a car load of muck which might be contaminated with herbicides and growth hormones and largely water anyway.

Just my twopenneth.

thanks for input all opinions count

Nicely put alan 

we said kirpi I think horse manure is perhaps one of the worst things you can dig into a plot unless it is several years old . all those seeds from the various grasses and weeds that the horse ate are designed to with stand passing thro the horse ( including temperature) to be deposited into its own little pile of compost ready to grow ? so unless your compost heap gets very very hot as with many commercial gardens or you can wait till all the seed has rotted down then I would leave it alone

Strangely enough I was reading a back issue of Country Smallholder earlier, and it was saying that manure is liquid gold to the smallholder, veg gardener etc.  More so when ou produce it yourselves through your own animals!

We get so used to all these commercial products, that the 'natural' stuff gets forgotten about.  Okay, I know lately people have been talking about all these amyno whatsits in manure and fertilizer, but don't ignore all the goodness that is in manure, after all, nature has been providing manure and fertilizers since animals began.