Animal dung (faeces) is a very traditional way of fertilising crops, but it can seem quite confusing! What manure is best to use on a vegetable garden? When should you add it? How much? What is the difference between manure and compost?

At Don’t Crop Me Now we predominately use composted horse manure to produce most of the mulch we use on our plots. We have a long-standing source of the manure that we are confident is weedkiller free (see Aminopyralid discussion below). Because we keep our own chickens we use their manure as component of our homemade compost. We have added guinea pig and rabbit manure/compost to our compost when we can source it. Recently I found a good few sacks of alpaca manure for a small donation to charity. I still have that stacked up in bags waiting for use!