Posted by VaTom on May 24, 2015 at 06:53:05 from (70.32.193.66):
In Reply to: Re: Horse Manure posted by El Toro on May 24, 2015 at 06:02:37:
Button mushrooms Hal? Would the problems some veggie growers had be a problem for mushrooms? I'm only growing shiitake currently, shockingly easy to grow.
The horse stables around here would love it if those commercial mushroom growers would show up with a large truck on a regular basis. Last time I hauled off 7 tons of manure, they asked if I'd come back next week. My compost needs are not that large.
I'd like to try other manure, but horse is what's readily available here. I'm not having a problem, other than finding a source that isn't half wood chips/shavings.
BTW, "More Other Homes and Garbage", a free download, has a chapter on designer compost. If you know exactly what you need, you can plan it. But you'll need more than just the horse manure, weeds, and kitchen scraps that keep me going. With my low temperature composting, the piles don't look like much of anything. I've had two graduates of the Master Gardner program standing on a compost pile, and not recognize it. But unlike me, they were chemical growers who declined when I offered to drop off a load of manure for them.
I prefer as little input from me as possible, both money and labor. Mostly, I make compost and harvest. Then shock visitors when I jam my hand almost to the wrist into a bed that hasn't been tilled for 10 years. It's no longer the subsoil I started with. Plants are happy.
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