5 Steps To Produce 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. This article provides you the information to be able to 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. When you have got all these ingredients you are ready to begin.
1. To star mix gypsum and manure.
2. You then need to put this base to the bottom of your compost bin and leave it in sunlight for 2 or 3 weeks to get decomposed completely. Once it has decomposed the bin then needs to be covered to allow all of organic materials to also decompose.
3. The steam machine needs to be used indoors this allows 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. 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 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 some hours, the heaps centre will become hot. The process has to be repeated and it has to be kept moist. When it becomes rotten the centre will cool and no longer be hot.
