What to plant in new hugel filled with manure??

First off hello to all. My first post after reading around for over a year. I’ll make an intro post to give my background or whatnot later

So, I have built my first hugel. I dug down approximately 4’ by around 30’ long. Basically was 95% rocks with a very small amount of clay.

I hauled that down to the back of the property to deal with later and could not afford to haul in topsoil. I live a few miles from a cattle sale barn and picked up about 4 trailer loads of I’d say 75-85% composted manure.

My question is what should I or even can I plant in there for spring? Or even for the first year if it must be that long. I have several other raised beds so it’s not critical that it produce food right away.

Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated. I’ve gained a few new techniques just from reading here so looking forward to all opinions!

Thanks
Joe

Since it's 75-80% composted I think almost anything would grow in there. Squash, pumpkins, & watermelons especially come to mind. Corn too. Good luck with it & welcome to permies!

Thanks. I kinda had in mind that it might be fine but I’ve never used straight manure. It’s always been mixed. I see a lot of what people are planting to fix N. So I doubted I’d have that issue but wasn’t sure.

Welcome to Permies!
Corn was my first thought.
Its greedy and it can be  thirsty, so a nitrogen rich hugle could really fit the bill.
I've heard that corn can even grow happily in fresh manure!

I’ve never done corn so I’d be contemplating that alrdy. Sounds like I was on the right track. I guess my confusion comes in when reading others projects and pep stuff is the cover style crops with like 20+ different seeds.

Currently there’s not anything including any type of mulch. As soon as I finished we had horrendous weather. Had no power or water for 5 days so it’s cleared up and trying to get plan for next week.

I got several mixed greens and peas that I’d earmarked for this bed but had to switch gears to prep for weather

Thanks

Well one of my two fears has come true. Some of the hay that was mixed in with the manure started sprouting in my hugel. So far I have a couple sprouts from the seed I planted so hopefully fear two doesn’t happen