Aiai, it’s not going well on the manure pile. Moschata all but dissapeared. There are Maxima, but not many and not as big as I had hoped. Some watermelons seem to survive, but none thrive.
There goes the hope to supply Antibes Convention with a truckload of seeds. 
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Yeah, my volunteer squash plant produced a squash, but it rotted, my tomato plants are thriving, but I realized that these were the descendants of the tomatoes I deemed not tasty enough for human consumption so fed to the chickens. FML, lol
Maarten
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Yeah. Well I’m not giving up. Planning for next year. He’s normally putting it in the field in long much lower rows. Much lower. I’ll grow the ones that seem to like manure on the edge of the dikes. They then can drink from the bottom soil easier.
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I was told the same…horse manure too salty, too low in nitrogen…etc.
The manure grows great vegetables by the way. Glad your pushing thru the naysayers and using this resource. But, here in the sandy soil the plants did way better with composted wood chips in the mix with the manure. I saw more mycelium threads develop with a mix. I layer it onto the ground, see that it gets a good watering, then hand broadcast fresh earthworm castings…its good for two growing seasons, as it all continues to compost and shrink. The layers that worked for me…2 to 4 inches horse manure, about the same of composted wood chips, if manure layer is too thick it can heat up again by composting…and roots cant grow deeply in hot compost…some like it if tvey have shallow roots…
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