Mushroom compost is very popular product and used by many gardeners and landscapers, the product you buy from the shops is a product which is produced after a growing process. After reading this article you should have enough info to hopefully make your own mushroom compost and miss out the middle man.
The ingredients you need to start to make mushroom compost is manure, hay, poultry manure, gypsum and mushroom spawn as well as a large compost bin and steam machine. Once you have all these you are ready to make mushroom compost.
1. You need to begin by mixing the gypsum and manure.
2. You now need to get your compost bin and line the bottom with the just mixed manure and gypsum and leave it for 2 or weeks. After this has happened the bin needs to be covered to allow it to become hot and all the organic matter also decompose.
3. You need to use your steam machine indoors to allow the compost to pasteurize. For the best uses make sure the room has ventilation to allow the steam to blow till the room gets heated to approximately of 1600.
4. After it is pasteurized it should be placed on trays and the mushroom spawn added and mixed.
5. Then added peat moss to the tray and this needs to be kept inside and the humidity and the temperature of the room controlled. The growth of mushroom then can be expected within 30 days.
A quality mushroom can be grown with the help of horse manure. This can be bought from shops or for fresh manure add 20% of wet straw and leave it outside. After a few hours the heaps will become hot in the centre. This process needs to be repeated and also kept moist. When it becomes rotten the centre will cool and no longer be hot.
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