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Posted by irisdublin (U14428036) on Sunday, 10th October 2010
Hi ,
I just want to get some advice on if and how i can use mushroom compost.
I can get my hands on tonnes of the stuff. Someone told me its alkaline and shouldnt be used. Is this true or could i just use it where brassicas are going to go?
Thanks
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Posted by mister-grow-it-all (U14591945) on Sunday, 10th October 2010
this may help ,rhs
thanks so much, everything i wanted to know
And yet it does not say that most mushroom compost is the manure from Chicken battery farms, so there
is another side to the story.
If you think that battery raising is cruel, then even some of your vegetable matter is well grown, as a result of it!
The bedding straw mentioned is part of the hen house
litter.
I may be wrong but I have never heard of using chicken manure for growing mushrooms
Mushroom compost is normally the product of horse manure from the racing stables.
This is composted and the mushrooms grown on the reult
Mushrooms are very good at removing all the nutrients out of the manure though so it is only any good for providing organic matter
It is also limey so is best used on soils which are acid as there is a risk of locking up nutrients in your soil and certainly dont go too wild with it
There would be enough from the chicken battery but scarcely so from the racing stables, except locally, to Farmer steve!
The reason I said this, was that mushroom compost is nearly all straw
Battery chicken manure has by it`s definition no straw in it at all. Horse manure as anyone knows is very high straw
I am not an expert as I have never had a direct connection to the mushroom industry. I do know that the horse racing stables do not have to pay to have tha mnaure carted away and most of the Battery waste goes into the power stations to make green energy
Vermiculite is also added to the chicken compost.
Stable straw may be another component/ingredient in some places.
Irisdublin Depends what you are going to using for. I have swear by it for the veg beds on my allotment but I do let it settle over the winter before planting. I also have access to a lot of grass clippings which I mix in layers. I find certain potato varieties like mushroom others don't. If you are using crop rotation there shoudn't be too much of a problem. If you can get your hands on tonnes of the stuff, at a reasonable price or even free good for you. Your'e not in South London by any chance?
Plotthirty.
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Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Saturday, 16th October 2010
Anywhere near Wiltshire ? ? ? Cheers, Tony.
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