Mushroom Compost Preparation
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 aims at providing you with the information so you can 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 these ingredients you are ready to go.
1. You need to begin by mixing the 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 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. 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. 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.
Hello, we are considering opening our own mushroom farm in southern Tasmania, Australia but would first like 2 experiment on a small scale at home, any and all information would be greatly appreciated,
Regards Narelle Samuel