Well Rotted manure

A question about : Well Rotted manure

Hi
Can anyone help me by telling me whether this manure is well rotted enough to be spread in the garden. It doesn't smell but I'm concerned that it has bits still in it. Is that normal?

I can't upload a picture unfortunately.

Susan

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• If you want to upload a photo as a new user, use photobucket or flikr, then put the link up on here without the http. We can then put the link up for you.
• Oh thank you. This is the image:
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  Was it originally poo only or from daily mucked out stables? Looks a wee bit 'whole poopy' too me, from the picture to be well rotted, but if there was bedding in it that's rotted in to I'm wrong. Is it on a heap or in bags? If its on a heap and you cut into it with a spade does it hold its shape and slice or does it crumble? It the former I'd slice of the top and move it to the side you aren't using and take from the nice slicey bit.
  If by any chance its your muck heap or one you can have in put in, maintaining a muck heap 'properly' is considered a little old fashioned now bit it really does, IME, increase the rate of decomposition and build up heat hope fully killing more weed seeds.
• I'm still giggling at being offered a canvas wrap of the picture.
  There again, when viewing exhibitions of fine art, I've seen much worse!
• My old mum used to run an allotment for about 20+ years so was an old hand at growing veg for the whole family. She gave up using manure, although there was a nearby stables, because a lot of weed seeds pass through the nags and you then spend more time weeding. Compost is the way to go.
• If in doubt regarding the rottedness of manure, just bung it in the compost dalek. Layer with garden and kitchen waste. It should be lovely by next year.
  The fresher bits of manure are always welcomed by runner/French beans, so dig a trench now and shove it in.
  Bean trenches are also good for the compost that is halfway between rotted and fresh, so when you turn your bins/heap, remember the bean trench (and other legumes).