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It was a nice day, windy, slightly cool, and overcast. A great day for working. So, I turned the compost in this raised bed. It's full of straw, chicken coop cleaning (hay, feathers, chicken poop), aged urine, and some wood stove ashes. It's been composting all winter long. I tossed in a package of old mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) and covered them up. Hopefully they'd spread additional mycelium to help composting. However, the biomass is chop full of grey dust, normally an indicator for various fungi like molds.
The biomass was stratified. Barely composted material on the top, grey dust section in the middle, and rich dirt-like stuff on the bottom. I essentially used the double-digging method to turn the compost. Now much of the top layer is on the bottom and the bottom layer on the top.
I can't wait until it's ready for planting.
