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Growing mushrooms
Does anyone do it? I've heard a few different things and read a few different things but has anyone tried it and have any advice for a newbie so I avoid a lot of the less than efficient methods?
Re: Growing mushrooms
I do. But it's not mushrooms that you order from a catalog. It's kinda complicated, but here goes....
We have a huge tree in the backyard, but because the grass wouldn't grow 2-3 feet around the tree and it looked horrible, I built an enclosure with bricks, filled it with soil, planted some hostas and some other shade loving plants and it looks great.
Anywho..the mushroom part. We had couple of spots in the backyard where I would get batches of portobellos. I tried to "move" them into the enclosure under the tree, because it's a perfect mushroom environment. When I cut the mushroom down, I dug up the root system (or whatever it's called) and planted it under the tree. Mushroom reproduce by spreading their spores, so I ended up with TON of mushrooms that way.
I tried it with other varieties. We would pick them in the woods, and then "plant" the root system.
It's pretty awesome. Especially when you look at all the catalogs that sell mushroom plugs for $30-50 and you only get max of 10 lbs (? I think that's what it says).
Hit me up for more questions. I could even dig up a picture of what it looks like...
Oh awesome! I live in the humid south east so I don't know what will grow well. I don't know how to identify mushrooms so I never tired to replant any that I found because I don't know what they are. I ordered 100 shitake thimble plug things for about 12 bucks to start the ball rolling. They said they were good in the warm humid weather, I'm hoping its true. I'm trying to switch into sustainable growing and lowering our food budget by planting to eat. (its kind of hard to do anything long term because my husband is military so we'll move every couple years)
Thanks for the explanation! All the websites seem to make mushroom growing seem like this crazy in depth process.
My mom has been going out for years with experienced mushroomers and learning to ID the mushrooms and taking them back and spreading sliced up bits of mushroom/spores in the forest on her property. (This is the "old growth" forest that she planted from seedlings about 21 years ago, so it is a very young forest. She plants both edible and non-edible ones in the name of bio-diversity.) She now gets tons of mushrooms out there each fall of a variety of kinds.
She was assured by the "experts" that you can't just grow mushrooms like this. And indeed, I think her success rate has been rather low, but she's planted a ton of them and some took.
I don't know where you find people who know about mushrooms though. My mom's an old hippie, so she just seems to know these people. I have no idea where she finds them.