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Yes this question may occur to others because of the word manure, which in the English language can mean anything from fresh dung to dar, well decomposed and crumbly material like compost. I often call it compost when well rotted, and compost is another word with multiple meanings.
Hence possible confusions!
i like manure to be at least a year old, dark in colour and little bedding visible for planting salad into, and for sowing carrots too. It is compost by then. Where and if I have spread less rotted manure, say only a year old with straw still partly distinguishable, I prefer to plant beans, squash, brassicas , alliums etc but in practice there is sometimes an overlap.
I find it strange that we agonise over bacterial counts, while so many food crops are sprayed with glyphosphate.
