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- From: "Foss _" <old_growth@hotmail.com>
- To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:59:37 +0000
Hello Kevin,
Your bioremediation experiment reminds me of a fellow named Paul Stamets (sp?) in Washington state. He was able to achieve similar results in a similar situation using oyster mushrooms. Fungi being a primary decomposer of carbon chains(wood, leaves, coffee grounds, motor oil?, etc.),just wondering, out loud, if there might be some correlation or if you noted any?
I am a firm believer that coffee grounds are one of the
most fertile soil amendments available!
I agree with you 100%. Almost seems as if the coffee grounds grow worms.
I do add some sort of liming amendment to most applications to balance the acidity, but not to much.
In Paul's catalog "Fungi Perfecti", he offers what he calls the "Espresso Mushroom". Which basically is coffee grounds inoculated with oyster spores.
Jeff
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Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds,
Kevin Topek, 12/14/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds, philcorbett, 12/14/2001
- Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds, Foss _, 12/14/2001
- Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds, Michael Dean, 12/14/2001
- Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds, Kevin Topek, 12/14/2001
- Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds, Foss _, 12/14/2001
- Re: UK member or Coffee Grounds, georg parlow, 12/14/2001
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