This past spring I took a local CSA farmers advice and bought/spread/and tilled 5 yards of apparently well-composted mushroom compost into a 40x30 vegetable garden. The mushroom compost included a lot of wood chips of various sizes and decay which I guess the mushrooms grew on.
I added the same amount of nitrogen as in past years and planted tomato, pepper, snap pea seedlings, NONE of which grew very well. The tomato plants were half the size of past years. Basil, lettuce, chard, zuchini did OK, not great. One friend suggested that the wood chips were using up all the nitrogen. Any ideas ? and what do I do now? I usually remove any diseased plant waste, then deep till in everything else, then plant winter rye with often NO nitrogen added.
Mushroom compost problem
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