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Home-grown mushrooms have one big advantage: they are not dependent on the weather. You can easily simulate ideal conditions for quality mushroom growth. Most often people grow button mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, but if you have mature trees in your garden, you can grow boletes and birch boletes.
A garden full of mushrooms
Every mushroom lover hopes for an early autumn when the mushroom harvest will be good. However, if you don’t want to wait for that season all year, you can grow mushrooms directly at home. You can grow any mushrooms you want.
Mushrooms require symbiotic wood.
Forest mushrooms
If there is a small grove of oaks, spruces, firs, pines or birches in your garden, you can also start cultivating forest mushrooms. For forest mushrooms a dark and very humid environment is essential.
In the past, offcuts were scattered in such places in the garden and people hoped that mushrooms would actually grow.
Nowadays it’s easier. You can buy mushroom spawn in powder form in a store. This mixture contains several popular species of edible mushrooms, and if you sprinkle this mix on a suitable spot, you can soon look forward to a great harvest of fresh mushrooms.
How to do it?
Apply this mushroom mixture in powder or suspension to your spot — around the roots of trees it’s good to go about a meter or two around the planting area. The environment must be ideally moist and bury the mix slightly under the surface of the soil.
Birch boletes grow under birch trees
Not all species of mushrooms will grow from a given mixture, but only those that find ideal conditions at that spot.
If you want to be sure that your cultivation will succeed, you can moisten the spot during the night hours.
Button mushrooms
Button mushrooms contain many beneficial substances and are often eaten even by people who claim they don’t eat mushrooms.
Home-grown button mushrooms have lots of important nutrients that purchased ones often lose.
Therefore it’s good to grow button mushrooms at home. You can find a kit for growing button mushrooms in many stores focused on gardening and hobbies.
Before you start the actual cultivation, make sure the substrate is full of important mycelium. You’ll recognize this primarily by smell. If you don’t smell an intense mushroom odor from the soil, let the substrate mature for a few more days.
Oyster mushroom
This mushroom is a true gem among all mushrooms because of its excellent beneficial substances. If you grow this mushroom at home, your body will thank you later. The advantage is that for cultivating this mushroom temperatures of 10-20 degrees and light are sufficient.
Oyster mushrooms can be grown on logs, on a stump, or on straw.
Most often the biggest problem is preparing the ideal substrate itself. It is also necessary to keep the substrate at a constant temperature so that you can grow mushrooms year-round.
For the first phases a warmth of 20 degrees is necessary, and later move the mushrooms to an environment where the temperature is only 10 degrees.
