Compost ? Manure

[ShenandoahJoe]

Every spring, I go off to the farm supply and buy half a dozen bags of composted manure. I mix it into the soil when I plant; it kinda makes up for my incompetent gardening skills.

This year, though, all the bags say "compost and manure", not "composted manure". What changed? Is it a different product, or did some labelling regulation get re-written?

 

[Ken]

Think they added a wood chip filler to replace the more expensive manure. I purchase a couple of sacks to start the seed for garden at W/M and put in container placed the seed and sprinkled with water and had wood chips . plants started and are yellow from lack of nitrogen.

Try by putting some in container and see if it is wood chip filler.
ken

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

I used to find wood chips in there all the time. Now, it looks sandy.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Think they added a wood chip filler to replace the more expensive manure. I purchase a couple of sacks to start the seed for garden at W/M and put in container placed the seed and sprinkled with water and had wood chips . plants started and are yellow from lack of nitrogen.

Try by putting some in container and see if it is wood chip filler.
ken

I suspect they are trying to get rid of the wood chips. Wood chips, of course, will suck the nitrogen from the manure in the decomposition process, that's probably why the seedlings are yellow. If you are going to use wood chips (or sawdust in my case) make sure you have plenty of nitrogen in the mix to completely decompose the wood or else it will take the nitrogen from your plants.

 

[Ken]

Normal use Triple 13 on plants waiting until roots have established. when buying cow manure didn't expect wood chips.
Here our garden is a month earlier than usual so placed seed in purchased manure to start from Wal-Mart because the method I use wasn't ready. Disappointed in thier product.

Also feed cattle bailed hay in ring feeder so hay manure mix is stacked and allowed to go through a heat stage then mixed with aged wood chips more sand than chips.
ken