RE: mushrooms

I believe they get it from city dwellers' garbage. It is rich, dark, warm
soil, and  when I go on Saturday mornings, there are always avid gardeners
filling up the trunks of their car. Also lots of horse manure since our city
has police on horseback. I guess its good since everything grows so well. I
have tried to compost myself. Don't have much room, but in a little corner I
dump grass clippings, leaves, coffee grinds, egg shells, tea, vegetable
waste; but it
takes so long to decompose, and someone from my area told me why bother; it
is kind of unsightly and may attract rats (of all things, since I do live in
the city) and I can get all the compost I want for free. I still hate to
throw anything away that I think my garden can use. About how much do these
composting bins cost?

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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