Tips on How To Produce Mushroom Compost
The popular product mushroom compost is actually the compost that mushroom growers make in which to grow mushrooms. 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 all these you are ready to make mushroom compost.
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 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. This can be bought from shops or for fresh manure add 20% of wet straw and leave it outside. After some hours, the heaps centre will become hot. This process needs to be repeated and also kept moist. Once it has finally become rotten the centre will no longer be hot.
