Mushroom Compost

August 16, 2008 Ben General

Yesterday I had my first experience with mushroom compost. At the moment, I hope it will be my last.

I purchased a 25 litre bag from a store that shall remain nameless. The pallet must have been sitting in the rain at some stage, an the water had got through the air holes in the bag. The result was a stinking anerobic decomposition which looked like grey slime.

I will grant that that was only half the bag doing that, but the smell was rancid. I scooped about 4 handfulls out of the good part to mix into the soon to be Zuchini bed and the rest got mixed into the pile of grass. Hopefully it will do some good in there to get the composting going.

Give it a couple of months, to let me lick my wounds and clear out my nostrils and I may have another go.