Mushroom compost for a community project?

tophat

Hello all, I'm looking for some spent mushroom compost for a local community project (PS I'm west of the Shannon) Any ideas ?

reilig

tophat wrote: »

Hello all, I'm looking for some spent mushroom compost for a local community project (PS I'm west of the Shannon) Any ideas ?

Contact a local mushroom grower. What county are you in???

tophat

Reilig I'm in East Galway

reilig

tophat wrote: »

Reilig I'm in East Galway

Burrenside Mushrooms
Attyslaney Tubber Co. Galway
(091)633063

Western Casing Ltd
Boyle Rd Frenchpark Co. Roscommon
094)9870376

Connaught Mushrooms Ltd
Claremount Claremorris Co. Mayo
(094)9362106

Muisiriuin Atlantacha Teoranta
Tallagh Belmullet Co. Mayo
(097)20092

Most of them will give you the spent bags of compost for free!

tophat

Thanks Reilig, time to hit the phones.

ELP

I know im going off thread but can mushroom compost be spread straight on to grass land?
I see loads of it tipped up in the corner of fields beside me does it have to seasoned for a while before spreading?
What value does it contain?
Thanks for any answers

reilig

ELP wrote: »

I know im going off thread but can mushroom compost be spread straight on to grass land?
I see loads of it tipped up in the corner of fields beside me does it have to seasoned for a while before spreading?
What value does it contain?
Thanks for any answers

I'm not an expert but I'll tell you what I know.

Mushrooms are grown in bags. 3/4 of the bag is shredded straw. The top of the bag contains the peaty soil which grows the mushrooms.

The bags will grow several crops of mushrooms but when they are finished, the mushroom farmer has to treat it with a disinfectant to kill the fungus (mushroom) before they can dispose of it.

My personal view is that it contains very little nutritional value for the soil - it is after all, mostly straw. The compost on top is a peat which doesn't have added fertilizer (I know that wild mushrooms don't like to grow on land that that has received artificial fertilizer). So I think that the idea of letting the pile of compost season in the corner of the field is to allow it to decompose and turn into some type of useable compost that can be easily spread.

A couple of years ago I got several trailer loads of compost from a local mushroom farmer and used them to bed a cattle shed. It worked great. I stored it in a shed and used to put it into the shed with a hydraulic transport box. Then I emptied the shed and spread the compost / manure mixture on a very rushy field. That was in 1998. It killed every rush on the fields and to this day, they never regrew. Land was very soft after it for a year or 2 - I guess the roots of the rushes were the skin on top of the land that kept it dry enough to drive over.

ELP

Thanks for that reilig.
If that is what it does to rushes I my get atlot of loads then.

David brown

hi all
yes you can spread it on pasture. better if it is stored and then spread. great for grass. not growing in bags now,mostly on shelves

krjukova

Reilig only connaugh mushrooms still open,others are closed,western casing only supply peat