WTNUT
5 year old buck +
I have about 100 trees planted - 90 percent of which are between second leaf and sixth leaf trees. Many of these have had the dirt settle around them, and nearly all of which have a small pea gravel on top of the surface around the trees. At the time it was left over from a concrete job and I did not want to purchase larger no 6 or 8 stone to put around the trees. All trees are caged. My buddy has a couple of large horse training facilities with unlimited supply of horse turds. He has a few piles of manure that is very old and would be considered compost at this point. I need some help here. I could either just use the bucket of the tractor and get some quality soil to fill in around the trees. Or I could get manure/compost from the barn and put around the trees. Is there any benefit to getting the manure? I am not sure how much it would leach into the soil and help or hurt.