Equigrow Soil Conditioner 40L Organic Manure Fertiliser - Peat Free Compost

Equigrow Soil Conditioner – 40L, Peat-Free Horse Manure

The Soil Conditioner is Equigrow's coarser manure-based product: horse manure and straw with a small amount of wood shavings for aeration, screened to 40mm rather than the finer grade. The larger particle size is deliberate — it is what opens up a heavy soil, rather than simply feeding it.

Equigrow compost it for about a month before shredding, then keep turning it for a further three. The heat that generates is what kills off most weed seed and pathogen before the material is bagged, and it matters: unfinished manure brings its own weeds with it.

Performance & Benefits

• Horse manure and straw with a small amount of wood shavings for aeration, screened to 40mm.
• About a month of composting, then shredding, then three more months of turning — heat that Equigrow say kills most pathogens and weed seeds.
• Improves moisture retention, structure and texture as well as fertility.
• Opens up heavy clay and gives body to light sandy soils.
• Supports growth in vegetables, fruit trees and flowers, roses in particular.
• Peat-free, with no added chemicals.

Suitable For

• Vegetable gardens, fruit trees and flower beds needing fertility and structure together.
• Rose beds, which take particularly well to a horse manure base.
• Heavy clay soils that need opening up.
• Light sandy soils that need body.
• Not a fine mulch or a container compost — at 40mm it is too coarse for pots, where Equigrow's Organic Green Compost screened to 10mm is the one to reach for.

How to Use

• Dig it into beds, borders and vegetable plots ahead of planting, or use it as an ongoing improver.
• Equigrow's own instruction is to till the soil to four or five inches, clear any debris, and spread it across the bed.
• Equigrow list it as usable all year round.
• Keep it clear of stems and crowns.
• Do not apply to frozen, snow-covered or waterlogged ground.

Specification

• 40 litre bag, approximately 18.5kg. Barcode 5060783790012.
• Horse manure, straw and a small amount of wood shavings, screened to 40mm.
• Ingredients are locally sourced from stable yards near the composting site.
• Peat-free, with no added chemicals.
• Equigrow publish no NPK analysis for it, so no percentages are quoted here.

Care & Caution

• Wear gloves when handling it and wash your hands afterwards, particularly before eating.
• Do not use it neat as a potting or seed compost — at this strength and particle size it is wrong for young roots.
• Damp a dry bag down before tipping it rather than breathing the dust.
• Keep it clear of stems and crowns when spreading, where trapped moisture causes rot.