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This refers to the used growing medium that is produced from the commercial mushroom growing industry . It can also be referred to as spent mushroom substrate, mushroom soil, recycled mushroom compost , or simply mushroom compost. Call it whatever you would like, it all means the same thing. Mushroom compost is made of the following ingredients: Bulking Agents - The most common bulking agents are straw, hay, horse manure, corn cobs, and cottonseed hulls. If you notice, most of these bulking ingredients act as a significant carbon source for the composting process. Nitrogen Additives - These include poultry manure, corn cobs, cottonseed hulls, urea (synthetic), and blood meal. Other - Several other ingredients are necessary when making mushroom compost, including water, gypsum (a source of calcium and sulfur used to regulate pH levels), and recycled leachate from previous piles of compost (helps to re-capture lost nutrients and prevent runoff into nearby waterways). These ingr...

Compost is the best way for organic recycling. If you want, it can be an easy and inexpensive way to recycle food scraps and yard waste in your home, so your amount of trash will be reduced. It regulates the soil acidity and it improves the soil structure. Besides, it has a lot of environmental benefits. Most important point is it reduce the use of chemical fertilizer. Instead, the use of organic fertilizer will improve the growth of your plant. There are loads of methods of compost-making. You can make it as easy or complicated as you want. The simplest method is ‘ cold composting ’ , also referred to as "slow composting". As the name suggests, this takes time. You just let nature do its job and after about a year you will have compost. You can speed up the process as well, in that case we are talking about "hot" or "fast composting". You ’ ll have compost within a few weeks, but it takes a lot more effort and time. This method requires more space an...