Reply To: Advice needed on compost vs manure

[dizzychicken]

Hi RandA, I live on the Dorset/Hampshire boarder, literally 100 yards outside of the New Forest National Park boundary, just outside Christchurch – not as rural as I would like to be but we don’t have street lights in our road (does that count?).

I have been doing a bit of research and all our waste including the ‘brown bins’ (for certain garden waste) is collected by a partnership of all Dorset councils, so far I can’t find any information on them selling compost. There are no diary farmers left around us. One farm has a few cows but looks like that will be closing soon, other than that it tends to be lots of equestrian who want the muck shifted asap and I don’t have space to store for a year. Think I may have to buy in for this year and see if the allotment committee will give me a little corner somewhere on site to stack manure for future use