Re: How do you fill your beds?

**a* <s*@earthlink.net>**

For those who don't know about mushroom compost, traditionally it's  
composted horse manure and/or straw or sawdust collected from horse  
barns at racetracks. They steam it before it's used  to grow  
mushrooms. I used it in my city garden - a freebee from a friend who  
owned a large mushroom farm that has sense gone out of business.

By the way, I "grew" awsome soil this summer by spreading a thick  
layer of shredded leaves over an  almost solid clay bed and leaving it  
in place the entire summer. Thanks to incredibly wet weather the area  
stayed moist all summer and the worms feasted. This fall I was treated  
to several inches of worn castings to spread on my veggie garden. YES!
On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Kirk R. Brown wrote:

> Here at work and therefore at home with my own raised beds we use a
> composted mushroom byproduct.  It's not your traditional mushroom  
> "soil."
> It's mixed with sand, screened topsoil and then turned repeatedly.   
> Great
> stuff.  I consider us very lucky to be living so close to one of the  
> top
> mushroom-growing centers in the country.
>

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