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Abstract: Most mushroom growers know that a compost stack almost inevitably contains eelworms, often in enormous numbers. Eelworms are also commonly encountered in compost towards the end of cropping, although "peak-heating" may have killed every eelworm carried into the peak-heat room. The purpose of this paper is to give a general picture of the part that eelworms play in mushroom growing, and to explain how eelworms may get into compost after it has been peakheated. For convenience I shall attempt to give the eelworm picture at the different stages of mushroom growing, beginning with compost intake and ending with the turning out of the spent trays or beds.
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