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mushroom compost

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It's great stuff!  I live about 20 miles from a large facility and most of 
the year, I think they charge $15 for a truck and trailer load of it. Still 
steaming when it gets shoveled onto the truck (and awfully smelly), but the 
plants go nuts! And, after the first couple of rains, we have some stray 
mushroom spores that hatch out of the pile, too.
I'd heard at one time, since they use sterilized horse manure to grow it 
in, from time to time, it tests out with a level of arsenic, but I don't 
know if that was because of the manure, or something else added to some 
batches. At any rate, I eat their mushrooms, so I gather growing a crop in 
the compost wouldn't be as bad.
But like all composts, it's value is in it's available quantity, low in the 
N-P-K fertilizer numbers. I don't know that it's as good, say as straight 
stable cleanings for building a compost or making beds. (In other words, if 
I had to buy it by the bagful, I wouldn't bother unless I saw some tests 
and numbers run on it first.)
(martha)


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