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What to do with spent mushrooms blocks

NoviceAnnyNoviceAnny Posts: 22
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Have recently started growing oyster mushrooms as a hobby. All good - but what can I do with the spent mushroom blocks? Can they go on my compost heap? Can I use  them as mulch?

Really not sure if it's  a good idea to introduce them into my garden. Seems such a waste to just throw them away. Anyone have experience and can advise? 

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  • Lena_vs_DeerLena_vs_Deer Posts: 203
    You can collect few more of them and make a mushroom bed from spent substrate! Where we live people collect them and mix in with sterile saw dust (deciduous hardwood) and coffee and fill raised bed with it. If mushrooms are locally sourced they should have no problem overwintering. And next year they would come up like they would in nature. 
    But I would like to point out again,  oysters grow here either way, altitudes and tree sources are right. So you could ask some info locally from mycology group perhaps or farm that sold you the block.

    I had few of these myself, but never composted it. I know it’s something people indeed do, but it seems to attract other mushrooms too and you’d need to be able to identify them to maintain good mushroom compost. 

    Not my photo, but this is what result looks like 


    Hope someone knows about composting! 
    Good luck! 
  • NoviceAnnyNoviceAnny Posts: 22
    pansyface, yours was the answer that I wanted - that I could add them to the compost heap :-)

    However concern is as Lena_vs_Deer has suggested, that mushrooms will appear which would not be welcome  :-(


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