posted 11 years ago
I’m doing this with potatoes. The manure is strawed. I also have the doubt about nitrites and nitrogen being too high or unbalanced for plants. I’m doing it anyway.
I remember seeing this as accepted practice. After the season’s over, you get two products, tubers and well-rotted manure.
I think you have to be able to sense how rotted or fresh it is. I’ve seen fresh manure that didn’t have much straw. I had serious issues about using it, so I just used it for hotbeds. The stuff I have now has much more straw in it and seems at least a little composted down.
I’ve heard horse manure has tons of seeds in it. I’m using the cow stuff.
If you had the time you could run it through a worm composting situation and then you’d be growing in worm castings, not manure. But I imagine you’re anxious to get the sunchokes in the ground.
You know….now that I think about it…why are you bothering? Sunchokes grow just fine in any horrible soil, I wouldn’t think you would need to amend at all.
William