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Old 07-07-2003, 09:30 PM
Pat Meadows
 
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Default HELP? Vegetable plants all have light green leaves?

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:31:16 -0700, (Glenna
Rose) wrote:


Pat, I was told that the reason spent mushroom soil is so great for the
garden is that it is aged horse manure. If that is true, you shouldn't
need to let it age; that's already been done. I would think even if it
were fresh at the start of the mushrooms, it would be aged when you
received it. Partly, it might seem what the definition of "aged" is.


This was my reasoning as well. In any event, since we had
two choices -

1. Plant in spent-mushroom soil
2. Don't plant at all

- the choice was easy!

Everything appears to be thriving, so it's evidently not a
problem.

Last year's spent-mushroom soil was black, crumbly and
completely odorless. This year's was obviously younger:
dark brown, crumbly, with a slight odor. But it still
worked out well.



My garden has been fortunate that I've been able to bypass the mushroom
stage and used the aged horse manure directly, in past years with
thousands of earthworms included. I figure with that many earthworms
working it, it can't be too fresh to use in my garden.


Oh, wouldn't that be lovely? We're beginning to have
earthworms - we sure didn't start out with any in the heavy
clay. We have quite a few now.

Pat