Dung time

With the runner beans running out of steam now (they were good in the end) and other crops being harvested it's time for an Autumn clear up and the start of the digging of as much of the plot as possible.
What better time than to incorporate a ton or two of well rotted horse and calf manure with the dig? Rather than have many different suppliers carving the site grass paths up with their various transportation of soil improvers, I encourage all to use the same farmer to supply every ones order delivered on the same day. This way, we can set about repairing the paths asap as a trailer carrying nearly 5 ton of wet manure coming on site 10x is bound to cut the 'turf' up but by using the same track each time the damage is minimal.
Our friendly farmer who is local is supplying 33 of our tenants with a mixture of calf and horse, this being the third year now and when it arrived this year we were very pleased to see hardly any straw with it at all other than well compressed some time ago into the actual dung.
The members were given the option of ordering a third,half or a whole trailer full and I needed a degree in maths to work out how much to put where as with this 3 acre site and the dung being wet didn't want folk, especially those not over strong to cart it too far. Chris happy to tip it where I wanted it so a lot of working out to do but worth it as members pleased with their lot, one's wife even said she hadn't seen him so excited for quite a while! Whatever does it for you?

Pictures show one pile for just 6 members which indicates the volume needed and the other some of the tracks made just after being repaired with top soil.