Courgettes/squash and compost heaps

I've read alot of posts about planting on compost heaps or in Daleks and I wondered if you can use compost that isn't completely rotten down?
I've got a load in various stages of decomposition but really want the older stuff for the beds. I chuck in garden/kitchen waste, newspaper and chicken straw/poo.
I was thinking of mixing it with a bit of topsoil and using it to fill up a builder's bag halfway and rolling the sides down, or potato bags bought to grow spuds as I'm not using them this year.
Thought it would save a packet on compost and that would be the courgettes and pattipans sorted.....?

I think you'll find that it works fine.

Just consider how all sorts of stray plants germinate on the still-composting heap without your permission...

I'll probably use the same sort of stuff, wheel it onto the garden, and cover with some soil because it looks a bit untidy, and the birds tend to kick it about a bit.

BTW, there's always one courgette which gets away! Uncanny that, even if you spend an hour poking around under the leaves each day!

Yes I would too, or some growbag compost.  Before planting please let the whole pile settle as it slumps quite a bit so you need to be able to top it back up before planting

As the material continues to rot down as the plant grows you will probably have to keep adding more compost or the whole plant could disappear from view   

hi all,
Going to grow my pumpkins and courgettes etc straight into my manure heap this year. Saw gardeners world do it with a giant pumpkin last year so thought I would give it a go, has anyone else tried this ?

I have a dalek three quarters full of stripped turf and I'll top this with rotted compost from my other bins and plant a squash plant on top of that.

That sounds very cosy 

Veittaclark.... bung the plants in (keep a spare just in case) and see what happens.

Nothing ventured nothing gained. It's a good way of learning what works for you. 

Yup! I'm going to give it a go using the potato sacks. I'm also going to pile a load on the comfrey bed and grow Harrier in between them...they're well spaced. 
I know comfrey won't mind (in fact I'll have to watch it doesn't suck out too much goodness!!!) and it means I can use the patch more efficiently. I'm juggling for space now!
My lawn has got smaller again this year.....