Mushrooms (yes, I know there are other threads....)

[horticultural_hobbit]

Had a lovely sausage casserole for dinner, and got a request to grow mushrooms. (Mi familia is clocking onto this growing food lark).Thought about it for all of five minutes, and thought why not. Then I saw the threads... (Have seen them, and not found what I was looking for)....

...but went and shopped anyway.Will be anticipating some window sill kits. Just some normal white ones and some chestnut jobbies.

Has any one dabbled with these, and not have harbinging tales of woe?

[SarzWix]

Uuummmmmm.... No.






I have managed to get some mushrooms from one of those kits, but I've tried it 3 times and never really had enough to justify the cost of the kit. But then, I wasn't as vigilant with the keeping moist bit as I could've been...

[JamesM]

Having not got the answers/feeback I was after i did it this way;

Lined a pallet with newspaper and filled it with 6" or so of compost.

Spread the spores out evenly over the surface and cover with another 2" of compost.

Cover this with newspaper and keep moist for around two weeks. After two weeks check underneath the paper for webbing that should have begun to appear. If it hasn't keep going with watering with the newspaper on top.

Once this has appeared removed the paper and add another layer of compost and keep repeating. This is whre i'm up to atm and so far seems ok although i've no idea how it'll eventually turn out!

[Florence Fennel]

Those kits seem a bit expensive to me, but I wish you luck.

[horticultural_hobbit]

'Tis the follly of youth and inexperience.

Will be chalked up to experience But will be an 'ooh' moment if it does come off. Have to some horticultural squad rotation. Onions and mushrooms will most likely come at the same time, with cabbages and lettuces to be planted out too.

[vicky]

Loads of success with the logs and dowels for shitake and oyster. Zero for the button mushrooms in compost! They just don't seem to want to grow for me! I did get some babies once but the flies got them before I could....maggots!
Good luck - if you succeed please let me know how!

[FionaH]

No luck with the logs and dowels here at all. Give it a try and see what happens would be my advice, but don't hold your breath

[Alison]

No luck what so ever with the dowels and log and about half a dozen from the window sill kits. Won't be bothering again.

[arpoet]

The nly success i have had growing mushrooms as been this year after we bought a load of spent mushroom compost to go in the raised beds... Had about 8 LBS of free mushrooms so far.

Roger

[Davyburns]

Tried the bucket type 30 years ago, and got 5 mushrooms, that came and came again, and tasted great, but cost wise, it was definatley a foible!!

[horticultural_hobbit]

::whispers:: I have mushrooms. Five tiny ones. Nothing to shout about, but there are mushrooms!

[Two_Sheds]

I've just picked 3 mushrooms out of the front garden, but as I didn't "plant" them and I don't know what they are, they went in the dalek

[Snadger]

Tried mushrooms under the greenhouse staging once..........no luck!

Chucked the compost out onto the bedsoil................. following year I had mahoosive field mushrooms growing in it!

[oldie]

Like arpoet I had a nice crop from the spent mushroom compost.

[SlugLobber]

I had a go with spawn, twice. Absolutely zero mushrooms. I still have the spawn, so might try again in my new place. I'm not the most attentive of growers, though, so that is possibly why I was unsuccessful!!