Hello! I’m new at composting. I used to have a trash at my family home that was very successful and was mostly food scrap leftovers. I have less than ideal situations for my compost pile. I’ve been putting my rabbits turds and bedding into the pile. Lots of beetles, spiders, potato bugs and ants are the main composters. Mushrooms just started growing out of the pile tonight. I have no idea if that’s good or bad. Any recommendations would be helpful
by Dis_Bich
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Mushrooms growing out of your compost is great
Fungi are good
Life is happening. Life is good.
That’s great. The mushrooms are basically the fruit of the mycelium a network of commonly white fibers that are growing through your compost and likely through your soil. The fungus is eating dead organic material and then spreading its seed, spores, using the mushroom as the dispersal device. Then the mushroom dies and it is eaten by another fungus, bacteria, insects, or mammals and makes the dead materials energy available to the food web. Most creatures can’t eat lignin in trees but a fungi mutated to do it and we’ll never have new coal on Earth because of it.