I did some fast composting (<1 month of hot composting wood chips, leaves, horse manure, coffee grounds, grass clippings, and kitchen scraps) and tilled it all into the ground to break up my heavy clay soil (which I partially excavated) so that I could grow a decent lawn. The half of the lawn that contains my home compost is sprouting loads of mushrooms and has been for over two weeks! The other half of my lawn was aerated, gypsumed, and heavily top dressed with store bought compost- but it doesn’t have any mushrooms. I’m quite interested to know what this means 🙂
by TheUmbrellaThief
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i mean… if you used wood chip. most likely the mushrooms are helping break that down.
mush rooms aren’t bad. they’re simply breaking down organic matter in the soil.
people just tend to not like mushrooms because our “lawns” are a hold over of bullshit classism/white supremacist culture. and heaven forbid anything signifying rotting would be in our lawns.
It means the soil is healthy!
It all depends on your opinion of mushrooms. It sounds like you don’t mind them, that’s good. It means the mycelium network being established in your soil is benefiting all but the perfect lawn purist.
When I had mushrooms pop up around my baby Burr Oak I was excited. I knew right then a conveyer belt of nutrients was headed to my tree.
That your compost is awesome