Tips on How To Produce Mushroom Compost
February 1st, 2010
Mushroom compost is a product which is used by gardeners and landscapers all over the world, the product you actually buy is the by-products of the growing process after the mushrooms are harvested. This article aims at providing you with the information so you can make your own mushroom compost and miss out the middle man.
The ingredients you need to start to make mushroom compost is manure, hay, poultry manure, gypsum and mushroom spawn as well as a large compost bin and steam machine. Once you have all these you are ready to make mushroom compost.
1. To star mix gypsum and manure.
2. You now need to get your compost bin and line the bottom with the just mixed manure and gypsum and leave it for 2 or weeks. Once it has decomposed the bin then needs to be covered to allow all of organic materials to also decompose.
3. The steam machine needs to be used indoors this allows the compost to pasteurize. Make sure the room has ventilation to allow the steam to blow inside the room till it reaches an approximate of 1600.
4. Once complete the compost should be placed on trays and mushroom spawn introduced.
5. Add peat and moss and make sure the humidity and room temperature is controlled. The full growth of mushrooms should be expected within 30 days.
A quality mushroom can be grown with the help of horse manure. This can be bought from shops or for fresh manure add 20% of wet straw and leave it outside. After a few hours the heaps will become hot in the centre. The process has to be repeated and it has to be kept moist. Once it has finally become rotten the centre will no longer be hot.
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