Has anybody grown mushrooms before, and have you any tips?
Husband fancies growing them this year, we have a good spot for them " a very shady, damp area underneath a couple of small thickly leaved trees. He wants to build some kind of raised bed for them (he has a good supply of reclaimed timber). We understand we need to buy the spores, other than that we know nothing! Oh, and we have an unlimited supply of manure (neighbour has 2 horses).
Any advice gratefully received, thank you.
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I'd love to grow them, but haven't tried yet. I didn't get any mushrooms from the spent mushroom compost I put on my raised beds last year, to my disappointment, so I am not sure what the best way to try would be. I did get good crops that I planted later, but I had hoped for mushrooms first.
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Toffeeapple said:
Good luck with that. OH's elder daughter gave me a couple of logs that had been inoculated with spores, left in the garden for the last 12 years, they have disintegrated and not given one mushroom!
I remember Alan Titchmarsh doing a garden and put in a few logs. Same - not a thing happened!
Tried one of those prepared kits in polystyrene trough once , certainly didn't replay the outlay . Research department engineers had a thriving business growing them in air raid shelters on straw and horse poo when I started work .
Seed catalogues are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than the web and playboy combined . (after Michael Perry)
I was thinking of doing that too and the Mushroom Box seems to have lots of advice on how to set up the mushroom areas and lots of different types of kits. We have a cellar which we could use to grow the mushrooms in, so we must get organised soon.
TA I think the thing you should have done with your log is to hit it on the floor to stimulate the fungi because it thinks it has hit the forest floor where it would naturally start to work on the tree. (I'm not clever just that is something I remember reading from the information the company above posted )
I get field mushrooms in the ...........fields! sometimes they are as big as dinner plates and we have mushrooms with everything for a few weeks. It would be good to spread it out over the year
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