Re: mushroom compost
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: mushroom compost
- From: W* V* I*
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 20:35:00 -0500 (EST)
At 07:58 PM 3/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Steve Thorson wrote:
>>
>> I've been reading info on mushroom compost lately, and am wondering if
>> anyone uses or has used this in the past. It seems to have massive
>> amounts of nutrients in it and appears that it would be good for our
>> pumpkins.Looks like it's rather spendy, but if one could find a bulk
>> supply, it would be feasible to use. Any input would be
>> appreciated.Thanks. Pumpkinpiper
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>
>I've used mushroom soil (compost) the past 2 year. It cost $20 a scoop
>from the front end loader at an orchard a few miles from the house. The
>load fills my four x eight trailer about three foot high in the center.
>It's basically horse manure thats used to grow mushrooms and if you get
>a fresh batch it in very similar to slightly composted manure. Before
>they sell it they add lime to neutalize it. The guy who loads it at the
>orchard said a horse farm locally sells it to the mushroom farm and then
>hauls it away for them when he delivers a new load. The horse farm then
>resells it as mushroom soil. How about it, your horses make flop and
>you get paid two times for it!
>Maybe you should try contacting any horse farms in the area or even a
>garden center that handles bulk proudcts. (Probably not one in town the
>neighbors would make sure they wouldn't carry it!) It definitely has a
>stronger odor than manure.
>Alan H.
>When it was dreary and wet the year before last I had mushrooms popping
>up all over the patch!
>
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Two years before I started this insane hobby, I bought a 38' tractor trailor
load of it, it does not smell, it sure works in flower garden's and now I
hope it works for pumpkins. Horse manure is not near decomposed as much as
the finished mushroom mulch is.
Bill
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