Equigrow Real Farmyard Manure 40L - Composted Organic Soil Improver Peat-Free

Equigrow Real Farmyard Manure – 40L, Composted and Peat-Free

This is exactly what the name says: composted horse manure with straw and wood shavings, and nothing else. No green waste, no coir, no spent mushroom compost — the three things that most often pad out a bag sold as farmyard manure.

Manure works slowly. It feeds as it breaks down rather than all at once, which is why it suits a vegetable plot or a rose bed you are managing across a whole season rather than a plant that needs picking up this week.

Performance & Benefits

• Composted horse manure, straw and wood shavings — no green waste, coir or mushroom compost.
• Feeds slowly as it breaks down, supplying nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium along with calcium, sulphur and magnesium.
• Improves soil structure and moisture retention as well as fertility.
• Helps break up heavy clay and gives body to sandy ground.
• Peat-free, with no fillers, bulkers or synthetic additives.
• 40 litre bag, easy enough to carry down an allotment path.

Suitable For

• Vegetable plots and allotments wanting a natural, slow-release feed.
• Rose beds and flower borders.
• Shrubs and general planting where structure needs improving as much as fertility.
• Heavy clay and light sandy soils alike.
• Not a potting compost. Seedlings and young plants need a fine, low-nutrient medium — Equigrow's Organic Green Compost, screened to 10mm, is the gentler choice there.

How to Use

• Dig it into the soil and let it break down naturally.
• Equigrow publish no application depth, so none is given here — judge it by the state of the ground.
• Usable all year round, because Equigrow only bag it once it is fully composted.
• Keep it off the stems and crowns of plants when mulching.
• Do not apply to frozen, snow-covered or waterlogged ground.

Specification

• 40 litre bag, approximately 18.5kg. Barcode 5060783790104.
• Composted horse manure with straw and wood shavings. Peat-free.
• Contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium plus calcium, sulphur and magnesium.
• Equigrow publish no guaranteed NPK percentages — farmyard manure varies batch to batch — so no figures are quoted here.
• Ingredients are locally sourced, and Equigrow publish no screening size for the manure.

Care & Caution

• Wear gloves when handling composted manure and wash your hands afterwards, particularly before eating.
• Do not use it neat as a potting or seed compost. At this strength it will scorch seedlings and young roots.
• Damp a dry bag down before tipping it rather than breathing the dust.
• Keep it clear of stems and crowns when mulching, where trapped moisture causes rot.