Composting around Lettuce

[Tomatoes&Things]

How well does lettuce like manure? I put some around my 2-3 week old plants today. Do you think it will hurt them? This is well rotted manure, 5-6 yrs old.

 

[OaklandCityFarmer]

So did it hurt them?

Couldn't help you but maybe can learn from you?

 

[Tomatoes&Things]

No, there doing great. I spread the rotted manure around them just enough so that it was not touching them. Then I put some light mulch over the manure and watered them real good. They are starting to take of now and the manure and mulch is helping keep the mosture in.

 

[bills]

5-6 year old compost is fine for around any plants. It would be well cooled off by now, and well aged compost doesn't as a rule, have a high nitrogen content. I say as a rule, as I imagine that if one was to put chicken manure in a sealed plastic bag for 5-6 years, it could burn plants still. A regular compost of leaves, grass clippings, egg shells, carrot peels, etc., from a compost pile should do nothing but help the soil.