How To Use Mushroom Compost In Your Garden
Mushroom compost is the compost used and generated during the process of growing mushrooms.
How to use mushroom compost in your garden. Using mushroom compost for raised bed garding- What you should know. Very poor soils can be improved with mushroom compost from December and forked through regularly. How and when to use mushroom compost.
Begin with five bales of wheat straw 175 litres of fresh horse manure and 5kg of gypsum. And in containers use. For use in a garden use no more than 50 mushroom compost so you dont end up with a spongy soggy mass.
To make mushroom compost on a small scale you can do so in your kitchen using the following method. Mushroom compost is unsuitable for fruit crops which prefer neutral to acid conditions and it is not recommended for use as a lawn top-dressing except where the soil is very acid and a definite need for lime has been established. You can also add the compost directly under the roots of the seedlings.
The mushroom crop is grown and normally 3 harvests are taken. After the mushroom harvest used compost is sold off. You can also use the compost by adding it as a substrate around the seedlings or using it as a top-dress.
But you dont want to use too much of it. I also had success in using mushroom compost as a mulch which was great in controlling weeds and helping my garden soil retain its moisture during dry periods. Use 3 inches of compost for the best water retention and weed suppression.
Early spring is the best season to apply mushroom compost all over your garden. The most popular organic fertilizer to use in creating mushroom compost is straw. When using mushroom compost as a soil amendment.