Kew garden TV program

[Fezinio]

Did anyone else watch this?

I was well impressed with the compost.

Fully established compost from start to finish in 10 weeks, now that was something else.

One thing that I noticed is they said they watered it. Should I be doing this to my heap?

Fez

[Snadger]

Did anyone else watch this?

I was well impressed with the compost.

Fully established compost from start to finish in 10 weeks, now that was something else.

One thing that I noticed is they said they watered it. Should I be doing this to my heap?

Fez

Enjoyed programme. Surprised to see them adding compost that was still steaming to the beds though?

The ten weeks was because they were constantly turning it methinks!

[NOG]

Did anyone else watch this?

I was well impressed with the compost.

One thing that I noticed is they said they watered it. Should I be doing this to my heap?

Fez

Most definatly and you should be turning it. It is bessed if you can be assed to turn it out of one bin and into another then give it a good water. But not waterlog it. Its one of those things it needs to be wet but not too wet and it cant be too dry. It it better to be wetter cos you can add paper to retain some of the water.

[seasprout]

They watered it because it got so hot it becomes a fire risk, very large winnows (heaps) usually do, they have a series of large machines at their disposal to shread and turn the material often so it is not unreaonable to expect a good end product.

Also they use only the best poo from the queens horse's dont yer know. :-)

[Snadger]

They watered it because it got so hot it becomes a fire risk, very large winnows (heaps) usually do, they have a series of large machines at their disposal to shread and turn the material often so it is not unreaonable to expect a good end product.

Also they use only the best poo from the queens horse's dont yer know. :-)

The knowledeable guy who new his 'poo', they never did say what his official title was?

[Snadger]

Lord Muck?????????????????

[Benacre]

Brilliant Show. I did some of my degree course there on Fungi and have attended many courses there. I too liked the compost and that Mulches are commonly used. A proper hands on programme which enthrals me.
I was the one who tentively confirmed that the "Pepper Pot Fungus" was as thought by this dog walker and it was I who told him to send it to Kew.

It was found not far from me in Lowestoft and he is not even a Naturalist.
However it is always the general public who find the rare fungi as I think we Mycologists look to hard sometimes.

benacre

[Fezinio]

So Benacre,

I just started to take an interest in mushroom collecting and am a complete novice. I got a few books but if i need identification you can help?

Fez

[Snadger]

Brilliant Show. I did some of my degree course there on Fungi and have attended many courses there. I too liked the compost and that Mulches are commonly used. A proper hands on programme which enthrals me.
I was the one who tentively confirmed that the "Pepper Pot Fungus" was as thought by this dog walker and it was I who told him to send it to Kew.

It was found not far from me in Lowestoft and he is not even a Naturalist.
However it is always the general public who find the rare fungi as I think we Mycologists look to hard sometimes.

benacre

He seemed to possitively identify it by the multiple joining stems and because it had numerous top holes and not one? Is there no vegetative way it could be identified, similar to a DNA print? Facinating stuff! Also, if it was so rare, would the mycologist not have wanted to view the exact area it was found to see if there were any more?

[Benacre]

Yes he did visit I so did I and we found some more along with some less rare but uncommon Earth Star Fungi. This is normally the way. This year we are searching 2km squares for this "Pepper Pot" fungus so we could find many more.
Yes I can identify any Fungi if they are sent to me PM me for my address.
You could have identified the Fungus with spores too but macroscopic features are easier to identify in this case. If you want to see lots of Earth stars the Holkham Dunes in Norfolk is very rich in them.
Benacre

[Benacre]

This web site is worth a look.
The Norfolk Fungus Study group
http://www.shotbolt.com/nfsg/

[kirsty b]

Thought program was great. Definitely be tuning in in future.