mushroom compost and tomatoes

by Jennifer Miles
(Yelm, Wa 98597)

Can mushroom compost give a fungus to a vegetable plant? We planted our tomatoes (and corn, and squash) in mushroom compost a week ago and now none of them look very good, but the tomatoes seem to have a leaf fungus and the squash leaves are yellow). Do we need to spray a fungicide on the ground as well as on the plants? Can we save these or do we need to start over?
Help!
Jennifer Miles

Doug says read the article on mushroom compost here.

It sounds as if you have a high salts problem with the yellowing.

Not sure where the "fungus" fits into this but if it's gray/skudzy looking it might be early botrytis - and you can read the controlshere

Can mushroom compost give a fungus to a plant? Good question - no idea. There are a ton of reasons a plant gets sick (the big one of them is poor soil and stress).

But start by reading those two articles and good luck.