What is Mushroom Compost

[Music] good day welcome to Y cultivate my name is Steve and today we're going to be looking at mushroom compost this is a load of mushroom compost that I've just had dropped off today mushroom compost contains stable bedding um wheat straw poultry litter and cotton seed HS it's also being pasteurized to ensure that um any of those harmful microbes been um destroyed and and and and can't can't cause harm if we have a closer look at it you can see quite clearly the um stable bedding and the wheat straw uh contained within it mushroom compost can be used for a range of purposes including Mulch and soore conditioning I mainly use it for soore conditioning but I do know people who use it for mulch as well the reason why fantastic soil conditioner is because it doesn't rain of things including uh adding PL nutrients to the soil it also helps the soil to hold water it also um helps to uh change the soil PH it's slightly alkaline so if you've got slightly acidic soils it will help to lower um or I should say raise that pH so that it becomes a little bit less acidic and a little more alkaline if that is what's needed in addition to that it just simply promotes basic seedling growth so it's a great additive to the soil so how do you add it to the soil well what I do is I'll I'll take a wheelbarrow of mushroom compost and I'll spread it across a garden bed so that I've got two maybe three Ines of uh compost across the surface and then what I'll do is dig it down to a depth of approximately approximately 10 10 in maybe a foot once I've dug this into the garden soil what I'll do is I will allow it to rest for approximately a week just just to let things settle in and then after about a week I'll then plant out my seeds or seedlings or transplants I use mushroom compost as a part of that annual garden bed rotation and each year I go through the process of digging this through the soil I hope you found this brief video about mushroom compost useful can I encourage you to get in touch with your local mushroom grower and see whether they'll be able to provide you with a load of mushroom comp cost it's certainly much more economical to do it that way than to buy it by the bag from the local Nursery can I also encourage you to contribute to the discussion about mushroom compost on this YouTube channel in addition to that please go to our website tivate.fox.com