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I have heard that there are certain strains of mycelium that are really beneficial for inoculating into compost piles. Does anyone know more about this? Of course any and all mycelium is a good friend in the decomposing process. Where would we be without it?
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Re: Inoculating compost
Sun, December 7, 2008 - 9:42 PMI usually sprinkle a bit of dirt and/or some of my last batch of compost in my pile every now and then. Sorry, don't know anything about mycelium... Is this something you buy to add in, or something naturally occurring? -
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Re: Inoculating compost
Tue, March 3, 2009 - 4:11 PMannabelles advice is also my experience .....
however you may be slightly under a misapprehension for fungi are not the principal or innital decomposes... these are the thermophiles and they are actinomycetes (ray fungi) however they are not fungi but filamentous bacteria and they exist naturally in the environment... simply provide them with the right conditions and they will proliferate
but as annabelle rightly states adding some previously made compost to a new heap will increase, quite dramatically, the resident population and accellerate the process
regards
gm23
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Re: Inoculating compost
Wed, December 10, 2008 - 6:35 PMYou need to be adding celulose based material for most fungi to thrive (wood shavings, *small chips, paper or cardboard)
Oysters kits suggest you mix into compost piles when they are nearly spent, but you want some straw/ sawdust or paper/cardboard to help in the pile
though you want oysters to completely break down the pile as they aparently will parasitize plants if still runnign throug hthe material when introduced to your garden
Garden Oysters will acutally help break down material (like straw) right in the garden and increase the
fungiperfecti sells garden oyster kits as well as their "3 Amigos" kits
The most frequent voluteer in my compost piles have been inkies- they are fairly close to the shaggy manes so I would reccomend giving them a shot