What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 23rd, 2005 at 07:35 PM
What do you all think about using Mushroom Compost?
Re: What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 24th, 2005 at 05:03 AM
What is that?
Re: What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 24th, 2005 at 05:08 AM
Great stuff if you can get your hands on it...
Mushroom compost is the medium mushrooms
are grown in, very sterile, no bugs or anything,
and only used once, they can't reuse it to grow
a second crop... each crop must be new...
And what a bonus if you can find some!!!!!
Wher'ed you find some???????
Local or internet???
Mushroom compost is the medium mushrooms
are grown in, very sterile, no bugs or anything,
and only used once, they can't reuse it to grow
a second crop... each crop must be new...
And what a bonus if you can find some!!!!!
Wher'ed you find some???????
Local or internet???
Re: What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 24th, 2005 at 05:20 AM
I'm picking up a trailer load of it here this week myself. Luckily there's a mushroom farm down the road and they sell it off pretty cheap. I think it's all chicken manure too, so it should help my lasagna bed kick off to a good start.
Re: What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 24th, 2005 at 08:33 AM
Ohhhhhhhhh man, I am VERY VERY JEALOUS!!!!
What I wouldn't do to live down the road
from one of those........geesh..........
YOU LUCKY DUCK!!!
Discribe it to me will ya, once you get it,
and know I'll be cryin' when I read your imput!
What I wouldn't do to live down the road
from one of those........geesh..........
YOU LUCKY DUCK!!!
Discribe it to me will ya, once you get it,
and know I'll be cryin' when I read your imput!
Re: What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 24th, 2005 at 08:20 PM
Locally I can buy it by the Tandem load..so I guess I will get a load or 2 in the spring.
I have to get some fill for where my grass is too..do you think it would work like a top soil to plant grass too?
I have to get some fill for where my grass is too..do you think it would work like a top soil to plant grass too?
Re: What do you all think of Mushroom Compost? - September 24th, 2005 at 09:50 PM
lol Weezie! I'll take pictures. I wish I could share with you but you're just too darn far away. lol. I never heard of this supplier until I asked at a garden centre where I could purchase manure in bulk recently. The woman there told me about the mushroom farm so I think it was a good find too.
Another customer standing nearby jumped in though, said she got a load once and it ended up blowing mushroom spores all over her property. (Not a good thing, I gathered, by the sneer on her face. lol) The saleswoman said, they must have sold her a fresher batch then they normally do but that's not usually the case.
Another friend of mine spreads it all over their lawn each year and they grow some pretty lush grass now. Never had a problem. I'd guess you'd still need to mix it with some topsoil Noxzema, to grow grass, but I'm no expert. Might have to ask that question on the grass and lawn thread.
Anyway, the spore thing is the only negative I've heard so far, but for my purposes I'm not concerned. It's going to be covered up in a lasagna bed for a long time anyway.
~Suze~
I wish I could share with you but you're just too darn far away. lol. I never heard of this supplier until I asked at a garden centre where I could purchase manure in bulk recently. The woman there told me about the mushroom farm so I think it was a good find too.Another customer standing nearby jumped in though, said she got a load once and it ended up blowing mushroom spores all over her property. (Not a good thing, I gathered, by the sneer on her face. lol) The saleswoman said, they must have sold her a fresher batch then they normally do but that's not usually the case.
Another friend of mine spreads it all over their lawn each year and they grow some pretty lush grass now. Never had a problem. I'd guess you'd still need to mix it with some topsoil Noxzema, to grow grass, but I'm no expert. Might have to ask that question on the grass and lawn thread.
Anyway, the spore thing is the only negative I've heard so far, but for my purposes I'm not concerned. It's going to be covered up in a lasagna bed for a long time anyway.
~Suze~