Re: [compost_tea] mushroom compost and chitin degraders?

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:02:06 -0400
Some of the other inhibitory compounds are:

- salts (not always NaCl, but other inorganic nutrients such as KCl, magnesium salts, etc)

- antibiotics to inhibit things that compete with Agaricus

- antibiotics to inhibit bacterial diseases of Agaricus

- antibiotics to inhibit fungal diseases of Agaricus, including yeasts

- antibiotics to inhibit algal growth

Many muchroom growers will tell you that they don't add any toxic checmial, but they don't recognize that antibiotics are toxic chemicals.  The mushrooms don't take them up, so we don't eat them, but the antibiotics have their effects on the organisms in the compost or in the soil you might add the mushroom "copmost" to.  Thus, it shouldn't really be called "compost", it is officially called "spent mushroom waste". 

Call it what is it.  It can have great "fluff" effect, which gets oxygen into the medium you add it to, but that fluff doesn't last unless the biology gets going. 

So you can see benefits of adding spent waste, but not all that you should see.  And the benefits don't last if you don't bring the organisms into the soil.....

Elaine Ingham
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