Thanks i am going to go eat some lunch and go check the bottom layer of soil. What you said makes a lot of sense. I switched to non peat moss soil but can imagine the manure mix would compact down quite a bit.

Weedhound, i had be starting to fertilize but stopped after reading a previous thread a week or so back. My q/a must have not been updated properly. update, my q/a indeed was not properly updated. I am pretty sure i was high and freaking out when I posted this thread with a copy and quick edit of my previously used q/a section. Please excuse any discrepancy.