Mushroom compost is very popular product and used by many gardeners and landscapers, the product you buy from the shops is a product which is produced after a growing process. This article aims at providing you with the information so you can make your own mushroom compost and so you can cut out the middle man.

The ingredients you need to start to make mushroom compost is manure, hay, poultry manure, gypsum and mushroom spawn as well as a large compost bin and steam machine. Once you have these ingredients you are ready to go.

1. To star mix gypsum and manure.

2. You then need to put this base to the bottom of your compost bin and leave it in sunlight for 2 or 3 weeks to get decomposed completely. Once it has decomposed the bin then needs to be covered to allow all of organic materials to also decompose.

3. You need to use your steam machine indoors to allow the compost to pasteurize. The sterilized rooms with the ventilation has to be used for allowing the steam to blow inside the room till such time the room gets heated to an approximate of 1600.

4. After it is pasteurized it should be placed on trays and the mushroom spawn added and mixed.

5. Then added peat moss to the tray and this needs to be kept inside and the humidity and the temperature of the room controlled. The full growth of mushrooms should be expected within 30 days.

A quality mushroom can be grown with the help of horse manure. This can be bought from shops or for fresh manure add 20% of wet straw and leave it outside. After some hours, the heaps centre will become hot. This process needs to be repeated and also kept moist. When it achieves the rotten position, the centre of the heap will not become hot.