Re: [Rose-list] Re: mushroom? compost

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ahem..I got mine from Beaver Bark ALSO..but this stuff (according to the 
driver) was never used to grow mushrooms..it's just what mushrooms grow 
best in if one was to grow mushrooms!
Small world????
>Elle, I got mine from Beaver Bark in Scappoose. 
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>  Their garden mulch, which I
>also use over top the mushroom compost as summer approaches or as >>the roses 
swallow up the compost, is a nice crumbly black stuff that I
>love working with.  
ok..not rose list but maybe of some interest.,.this is the reason for the 
unit of mushroom compost in my front yard..
I have a large very treed yard..dougy fir, several birches, a flowering 
plum and a new volunteer flowering plum I havn'd decided what to do with.
Thus the front yard grows scrabble grass is I thought! wow! a native 
plant area.
I laid saved cardboard down in a vague swath under the trees and the MC 
was dumped on that..If it ever quits raining, I am going to rake this 
into a area about 15x25'..fairly thin and leaving unmulched tree root 
areas of at least half of the tree drip zone to hopefully keep the trees 
healthy.
On top of this will be the garden mulch and planted in it will be Native 
Rhodies and azalea in the sun spots and shade natives in the deeper shade.
Salal, OR grape, dicentra formosa, trillium, and the elusive bald hip 
rose R gumnocarpa.  there are also some west of the cascades wild roses 
but I have some doubt as to the growing conditions in my yard.
The front facing the street and back facing my house will be forest small 
bedding plants.
This will not be a flat area, but mounded and interesting in soil area 
with a river rock faux stream.
This ambitious venture will take me about 5 years I expect, to finish.
I have a few plants waiting but am interested in some unusual plants too.
Good luck on your home grown compost!


 elle/cedar mill OR
 north end of the willamette valley
 AHS heat zone 3
 USDA Zone 6
 Sunset Zone 8


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