Tips for Growing Mushrooms at Home
Growing your own mushrooms can be very fun and rewarding! We love mushrooms, vegan or not, they’re incredibly nutritious and delicious, and have long been a trend on beauty and wellness recipe menus. They can be quite expensive at the grocery store, and for gourmet varieties like oyster mushrooms, they’re not always fresh. Although growing mushrooms at home is actually easier than you might think! But before you grow your own mushrooms, decide what kind of mushrooms to grow. There are many kinds of mushrooms. Each type has specific growth needs. For example, the three mushrooms we often see in supermarkets are:
- White mushrooms: usually grown on compost
- Shiitake mushrooms: on wood or hardwood sawdust
- Oyster mushrooms: on straw.
Today, we will challenge ourselves with new mushroom growing techniques.
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1. Grow mushrooms in the laundry basket
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Mycotek’s Milkwood + Laundry Basket Oysters
2. Grow oyster mushrooms with coffee grounds and cardboard
You can grow your own oyster mushrooms on coffee grounds (which many of us are aware of and use as a nutrient fertilizer for planting supplies) and corrugated cardboard. All you need is a plastic container, cleaned with rubbing alcohol, and vent holes drilled around; you can easily find mushroom spawn in stores or online, pre-made rotten cardboard by soaking the cardboard in water, and used coffee grounds (preferred for fresh use). Place the rotten cardboard on the bottom of the container, sprinkle with mushroom spawn and cover with coffee grounds, and repeat to fill the entire container. Plastic bottles or bags are the first choice for mushroom growing, which are easy to obtain and help retain moisture during the growing process.
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A slice of rainbow + growing vegetables
3. Grow mushrooms from cardboard
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Growing Oyster Mushrooms at Home via verticalveg.org.uk+
king oyster mushrooms on cardboard
How to grow shiitake mushrooms?
3. Growing Shiitake Mushrooms on Logs
Shiitake, a Japanese name, as you can imagine this method of growing mushrooms originated in Japan. Growing mushrooms on sawdust is how I remember it as a kid. It explains why mushrooms grow well on trees, logs and even cardboard (made from trees). There are 3 steps to growing shiitake mushrooms: drill – plug – wax (then soak in water).
Tutorial from treehugger.com
If you want to grow a lot of mushrooms in a limited space, inoculate the logs by stacking them, which makes it easier to soak the logs in water.
Tutorial from tcpermaculture.blogspot.com
Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in Your Own Backyard
If you have tree logs in your backyard, you can drill holes directly into these vertical logs or stumps and insert plug strains into them for harvesting. After planting the “seed”, be sure to read the waxing tips, and sprinkle the logs to retain moisture.
Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in Your Own Backyard via fromscratchmag.com
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