manure

iv'e been told that if you put a shovel of horse manure into a bucket and top it up with water, let  it sit for a week and then use it to pour around the roots of your vegetables,it brings the plants on great, anyone else heard of this.@

Yes, liquid feed. I would be a bit careful with anything that doesn't like too green compost. And probably only feed every 2 months.

iv'e been told that if you put a shovel of horse manure into a bucket and top it up with water, let  it sit for a week and then use it to pour around the roots of your vegetables,it brings the plants on great, anyone else heard of this.@

I would dilute the brew before feeding plants with it, and only use it on well established plants (not newly sprouted seedlings). Might be worth testing the brew on one or two plants first, just to see how they react, just in case the horse muck contains any herbicides.

Great idea Alvin.

Last year, we also steeped nettles and comfrey in the water butt with a bread bag of 6x manure hanging inside, and the resulting liquid feed made a huge difference to the toms and the runner beans.

As several people have said here though, you must dilute it and this depends on so many things like size of water butt etc, that it's better to err on the safe side and do a little first.

It's also a very cheap way to get nutrients to plants, which is no bad thing...