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Old 08-10-2003, 08:25 AM
Robert
 
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Default mushroom compost good or bad?

: The message
: from Jaques d'Altrades contains these
: words:
:
:: The message
:: from Janet Baraclough contains these
:: words:
:
::: It's a great soil conditioner and if it was made with horse manure
::: probably contains some remaining nutrients. It also contains chalk,
::: not good for limehating plants; and has probably been repeatedly
::: sprayed with insecticide to kill mushroom fly.
:
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:: Modern mushroom farms don't. They have airlock lobbies between two
:: doors.
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:: Even in ye olden dayes the sheds were only sprayed (with nicotine)
:: while no mushrooms were growing. Allegedly.
:
: My son must have worked in a very oldfashioned one about 11 yrs ago.
:
: So what distinguishes unorganic modern mushrooms from Organic modern
: mushrooms?
:
: Janet.

The label lol