I wouldn't personally. Compost yes but not manure when you will be sowing seeds at that time.

Thanks moon grower - trouble is it was a new field last year and my crops were a bit pathetic due to poor nutrients so I had hoped to feed it before the Spring. I shall have to stick to runner beans again.

I take it that it would be the same manure that would have been deliverd if conditions had been feasable' so it has stood geting weatherd in the farm yard insted of standing on your alotment geting weatherd, because it was to bad to do anything with it,get it' use it, or you will loose a season when it could have been doing your soil the world of good, sorry MG did'ent mean to be rude.

Cliffo it 'might' be the same manure but why should it be? I'm sure the farmer will have done his best to sell off before now... If Cammomile had received in the autumn surely she/he would have dug in then? I know we did, and you aren't being rude Cliffo just stating an opinion.

I agree with you MG, any good farmer/stable manager has to keep the "stock" moving other wise he will sink under the sheer amount that would build up. Saying that, digging in mature manure in March would still be to 'strong' for seedlings, surely?

Iget cow manure from a large farm,and he has a manure stack were he tips on one end and sells the manure on the other end ,acording to him the manure he sells is at least twelve months old, and I dig my own when I go and it is dry and well roted,he says who would bie it if it was fresh, and this must go for all experanced gardners,so I realy do not understand your point.

Ian you are more experienced at veggie rowing than me, at least in recent years, as we only started seriously growing again a few years ago... Can you help Cliffo understand?

Adding manure of any vintage in March is entirely against the thinking of my father and his brothers (who by the way were regular show winners for their vegetables) I rang my dad after my first answer just to confirm my thinking on this and he was vearment in his answer that it would be far to late to add manure in March. He believes that it should have gone in "before the first frosts" He dug around four tonnes of well rotted manure into his allotment in November and feels that he was late in doing do. (By the way he is 85 this year and has two full plots of his own plus he "keeps" two half plots for the "old folk on site"!

Ian your dad is some guy ,I think that I do well at 77, but I have been growing veg longe enough to be in a position to disagree with him, and I probly have more experance than both you and mg,put togather I won a lot of prises by for instance puting manure under main and late crops of spuds, as longe as the manure dose not com in to contact with the spud and the roots are able to reach it you can not go wrong ,and the best results I ever had was with pig manure ,somthing you proberly would never use, I would never use manure at all with greens, or carrots and parsnips, idealy the time to dig in manure is the backend, but that dose not exclude it for the rest of the year, and I do not follow you people that use cemeculs ,or weed killers and pest distroyers, I over the years have learned to work with nature, and I can call myself a gardner, tell your dad that he will proberly understand,

Cliffo I can agree with you on a couple of points, digging manure under the potatoes? Yes.
Putting manure around plants? Yes
but Cammomile was asking if it should be dug in with the soil for general use and I still say the answer is a big resounding NO.
Another point is that you have more experience than both MG and I do? I will just say that with my dad and six uncles to learn from I wouldn't necessarily agree. I was playing around allotments from before I went to school.

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Cammomile, please excuse me if I don't return to this question again.

Good luck with your veg.