palinurus said:
My Soil Association leaflet warned me that manure, even well rotted, wasn't the best choice because it is usually full of weed seeds. "Spent hops from your local brewery", they advised, so I ordered a load for dropping off in the back yard from those nice people at Joshua Tetley.
When I got home I couldn't get the car in or out. In fact the load was bigger than the car, more the size of a Transit, and it took the pair of us three days to shift it - there is only so much barrowing and shovelling you can do at a time.
They were right, though. Completely weed free, doesn't blow away and if you put it on in the autumn the worms dig it all in for you by the spring. With hindsight, though, get a shared order....