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This is probably a bit of a daft question but am I right in assuming that spent mushroom compost doesn't need to be treated as manure...

I have just found a source of mushroom compost and want to add some to my new raised beds but am a bit unsure if I can do that on the bed I will be using this year for carrots and parsnips as a lot of the books say not to plant those crops on freshly manured soil.

Can anyone help?

Haggis

Mushroom compost is fine Haggis. Also I plant my carrots in very old manure and they are fine, its not the fact that its manure that causes them to fork but the manures consistency, if its lumpy they fork, if its nice and loamy like the stuff I use they dont (well mine never have).

Just check the pH of the mushroom compost, I'm sure it has added lime so might be a bit on the highside for some crops.

Thanks folks

Haggis