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Using spent oyster substrate as garden soil additive?
    #8985819 - 09/25/08 06:32 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Anyone tried breaking up old oyster sawdust bricks and tilling them into the garden?
My understanding is that the cellulose in these should be partially digested by the fungus, and the remaining mycelia should in theory get broken down by the soil bacteria and subsequently feed the plants.
It might also improve soil texture.
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Re: Using spent oyster substrate as garden soil additive? [Re: denger]
    #8986156 - 09/25/08 07:29 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Yes, and it's an excellent soil conditioner.  They also often fruit again if you have a lot of organic content in your garden. 
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Re: Using spent oyster substrate as garden soil additive? [Re: denger]
    #8986735 - 09/25/08 09:03 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Using old oyster substrate as a soil conditioner will also have the added benefit of keeping the nematodes down--oyster species eat nematodes!

If you don't have a copy of Mycelium Running, go get one!  There's a section in the book describing an experiment with companion planting vegetables and mushrooms.  Stamets recommends king stropharia and elm oysters as being good companions for garden plants.

I'm trying this out myself next year with some raised beds I've inoculated with sheets of elm oyster cardboard spawn.  My goal is to build a bed with onions, garlic, tomatoes, basil and elm oysters.  The spaghetti bed.


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Re: Using spent oyster substrate as garden soil additive? [Re: Paresthesia]
    #8986795 - 09/25/08 09:13 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

When I used to grow pot, I noticed after a few years of losing about 20% of my crop each year to nematodes, that there was no nematode damage in the areas where mushrooms were spawned.  These were P cubensis that I would companion grow in the manure I used to fertilize the plants.  Once I realized the connection, I spread them around the whole patch and my days of nematode infestations were over.  I suspect many species either trap, repel, or otherwise digest the little buggers.
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Re: Using spent oyster substrate as garden soil additive? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #8988376 - 09/26/08 07:07 AM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Cool!
Now I know what to do with leftovers!
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Re: Using spent oyster substrate as garden soil additive? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #12288058 - 03/28/10 02:22 PM (14 years, 22 days ago)

I know this thread is history but I couldn't help but add a fun fact about some fungal species out there.


Apparently there's a species that has lasso-like projection from the hyphae.  When a worm would make their way through one, the lasso would constrict, killing the worm and later absorbing it.


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