The popular product mushroom compost is actually the compost that mushroom growers make in which to grow mushrooms. 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. Once you have all these you are ready to make mushroom compost.
1. For starters mix 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. The steam machine needs to be used indoors this allows 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. Add peat and moss and make sure the humidity and room temperature is controlled. The growth of mushroom then can 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 some hours, the heaps centre will become hot. 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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