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Hi Ruth,
Yes I thought of that but I’m not aware of one in the local area. It seems to be all wheat, barley and rape around here with the very occasional field of maize, presumably for biofuel. Thanks for your input anyway.
On the positive side we managed to get to the recycling centre today to collect some municipal compost. When I stuck a thermometer in it in situ the reading was 60 degrees. Pretty fresh then. We took some anyway.
I also managed to find a farm with beef cows and on speaking to the manager he said they might have a little bit of year-old manure left which could possibly be delivered (yippee!) before Christmas. If this happens my question is this. I’m assuming that these composts are both too young to be spread on the ground, so would I be better to put down a thin layer of the woody manure from the trial bags, then cover it in cardboard and then cover that with the woven weed membrane I already have for a few months? If I stack the composts when do you think I may be able to use them? Or alternatively would it be better to mix them together and/or feed them in thin layers into my general compost heap? Also do you think adding some chicken manure pellets and/or seaweed meal would improve the situation or make them be usable faster? Sorry that’s a lot of questions but I’m just trying to plant asap.
Thank you.