this web site has been fun and quite enlightening. I've read some questions on mushroom compost, sounds like good stuff, but what is mushroom compost?

Mushroom compost is the substrate mushrooms are grown in. As well as I know, it is originally hot-composted from horse manure, screened, then sterilized, spread on trays and inoculated with mushroom spawn. After the mushrooms crop is thru, the growers sell the compost. It's great stuff!

This stuff is also full of fungicides so that no other fungi competes with the mushrooms. I beleieve they also use pesticides as well.

We certified growers cannot use it because of the toxic chems used in the mushroom trade stay in the compost and do get into your soil. I would not use it even if I was not certified organic as fungicides tend to be the most carcinogenic of all the ag chems.

If you need compost start a pile or 3 ASAP. Homemade is the best by a long shot.

Thanks for that info., discouraging as it was.

thanks for the info.- I do have a small compost pile, sometimes I get produce that the stores are throwing out, what the rabbit doesn't eat goes to the pile. I know that some commercial produce has been chemically treated, hopefully not enuf to affect the garden!