Re: [CH] Shrrooms
Greg Schultz (sclash27@execpc.com)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:57:14 -0500
I once planted some peppers in mushroom compost. That is a horse manure -
dirt combination in which mushrooms were grown for one season. They did
very, very well.
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> From: KB <khemcp@yahoo.com>
> To: Chileheads <Chile-Heads@globalgarden.com>
> Subject: [CH] Shrrooms
> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 8:14 AM
>
> Anybody using shrooms to
> fertilize their chiles?
>
> Mushrooms make effective fertilizer
>
> GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Mike Amaranthus opened the
> glass door of a refrigerator case and peeled back the
> top of a plastic container to reveal a musty brown
> powder. "Two tablespoons of this powder contains more
> spores than there are people on earth," he said. "You
> can imagine what you can do with 50 pounds."
> Amaranthus and a handful of other entrepreneurs are
> selling the spores of mushrooms, puffballs and
> truffles as an organic and highly successful
> alternative to chemical fertilizers and
> pesticides. To make his point,
> Amaranthus offers test plants - roses, maple trees and
> marigolds - grown with and without the fungi. Those
> inoculated with spores are bigger,leafier, and have
> more blooms
>
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