How To Prepare Mushroom Compost
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 so you can cut 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. When you have got all these ingredients you are ready to begin.
1. To star mix gypsum and manure.
2. Then added the mixture to the bottom of your compost bin and leave it out in the sunlight for 2 or 3 weeks, this will give it enough time to decompose. Once this has happened the bin needs to be covered to allow the compost to get heated and all the organic materials to become decomposed.
3. You need to use your steam machine indoors to allow the compost to pasteurize. The sterilized rooms with the ventilation has to be used for allowing the steam to blow inside the room till such time the room gets heated to an approximate of 1600.
4. Once the compost is pasteurized it needs to be placed on trays and the mushroom spawn added and mixed thoroughly.
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 full growth of mushrooms should be expected within 30 days.
A quality mushroom can be grown with the help of horse manure. The same can be purchased from the shops or in the case of the fresh manure 20% of wet straw has to be added and to be left outside in the heap. After a few hours the heaps will become hot in the centre. The process has to be repeated and it has to be kept moist. When it achieves the rotten position, the centre of the heap will not become hot.
