RE: mushrooms

Doreen.

You say you get compost from the city's recycling center.  Where do they get
their ingredients for the compost?  I would be afraid of accepting anything
of the sort not knowing whether dangerous chemicals may have been used on
various lawns (if grass clippings have been used).  I have my own three
section composting bin that I make all my own compost.  I won't allow my
neighbor to throw his clippings in because of this very reason.

You'd be amazed at how fast you can fill up a 27 cubic foot bin with "good"
grass clippings, newspaper, corn cobs, fruit peels/cores, rose/shrub
clippings, etc.  My three section bin goes like this: first bin is for
filling up, second bin is for "composting" (this is where the microbes are
happiest), and third is for finished product.  Middle bin is capped and has
clear plastic helping with the moisture and heat build-up.

You may want to try this if you have the room.  If room is a problem, a
single bin works just as well.  It just takes longer to get "great" results.

Craig Wallace
craig.wallace@emotors.com
Brighton, Illinois
Zone 5 (old zone)

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a
garden." -Ruth Stout


> ----------
> From: 	Doreen Knihnicky[SMTP:knihnick@mail.med.upenn.edu]
> Reply To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Sent: 	Tuesday, June 01, 1999 10:21 AM
> To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 	Re: mushrooms
> 
> Thanks, Kemberly for your reply. 
> 
> I think its neat to see them sprouting all over. I have touched them and
> smelled them. They do smell like the mushrooms we eat, but I WOULDN'T DARE
> EAT THEM. And I'm careful to wash my hands after. I don't use anything
> chemical, just basic compost that we can get free from the city's
> recycling
> center and everything is coming up beautiful. I suspected it was a good
> thing. You must be sweltering down there in Texas.
> 

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