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Does anyone know where you can get spent mushroom compost for cheap (or free!) in the Surrey area?
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You know you're a hard nosed gardener when you pull the weeds from others plots!
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Just joined today. Wondered if you had any luck find mushroom compost in the Surrey area. I have just started to build some raised beds and in need of something to fill them. Mushroom compost I hope would do the job. I live a few miles from Epsom so locally sourced compost would be good. -
just remember if you were lucky enough to source some that it has a high lime content and is good for brassica's but not for taters it makes them scabbythis will be a battle from the heart
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Yup, there is, and just down the road from you, but you'd have to buy it:
Marsden Nursery & Garden Centre
Pleasure Pit Road Ashtead, SURREY KT21 1HU
01372 273891
I haven't been there for a while, but they've had a big heap of it in/around the car park for years - bought some a couple of years ago but I can't remember how cheap it was..Comment
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You can buy it just to grow mushrooms too can't you? My friend had some many moons ago, and produced enough mushrooms for the family for ages!
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Hi Claire,
Love the blogspot....great to see someone else's plot.
Have just been to our local mushroom farm and got 2 bags of spent compost - 50p each - and am going to try them for growing mushrooms from spawn myself. Quite a lot of chicken content in this I think judging both by the look and the smell; will see how it goes.
Regards,
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