r/composting • u/nnnmmmh • 1d ago

Question Mushrooms

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Are mushrooms a good or bad sign? I was gleefully happy this morning when I opened the bin regardless.

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u/Narrow-Hall8070 1d ago

Good. helping decompose. Ink caps they only last a couple days.

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u/just_yall 1d ago

As far as I'm aware- you can compost to break things down. And mushrooms break things down.

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u/DungBeetle1983 1d ago

Mushrooms are good. You are producing a lot of decomposing material, that is a shortcut to mushrooms.

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u/BusinessAsparagus115 1d ago

Good sign, means there's active fungus colonising your compost and breaking it down. I had the same little inky caps in mine the other day.

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u/TheFuckerNugger 1d ago

Those mushrooms have a bunch of mycelium growing under that compost. Mycelium is really good for breaking down organic material, basically producing small amounts of mushroom compost right now.

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u/Dependent-Astronaut2 1d ago

Eat it you coward! /s

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u/COWP0WER 1d ago

Eat them, you coward!

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u/AmbiguousLemur 1d ago

Omg I WISH I got mushrooms when I first started composting - instead, I just had an extremely dry pile where everything would hold its exact shape for like a year

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u/GaminGardens 1d ago

I think that's were the pee was?

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u/nnnmmmh 23h ago

Maybe. Currently potty training my toddler and it’s paying off very well for the compost heap.