Growing mushrooms

[Guest cookoff013]

Anyone here do this?

[loriusgarrulus]

A few from the wood. They grow without any input from me though. The only one I am sure is edible is the chantrelle  

[old'un]

Don't waste your time, easier and cheaper to buy them you need them.

 

 

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, if your near a mushroom grower buy some bags of old compost and spread on a nice grass area and  don't forget to water in 🤔😁 then sit back and wait till Autumn

Edited June 7, 2021 by oldypigeonpopper

[Farmboy91]

There was an episode of river cottage where Hugh was brought a log that was all ready to go to grow. Holes had been drilled in and it had little dowels inserted in.

From what I remember once it was in the ground you just let it get on with growing.

[mel b3]

14 minutes ago, Farmboy91 said:

There was an episode of river cottage where Hugh was brought a log that was all ready to go to grow. Holes had been drilled in and it had little dowels inserted in.

From what I remember once it was in the ground you just let it get on with growing.

We've done this at our woodland.  I think that it can sometimes take up to five years before seeing any results.

[Farmboy91]

Just now, mel b3 said:

We've done this at our woodland.  I think that it can sometimes take up to five years before seeing any results.

Ah ok I didn't realise they could take so long, I wouldn't mind one myself to be honest. 

[mel b3]

14 minutes ago, Farmboy91 said:

Ah ok I didn't realise they could take so long, I wouldn't mind one myself to be honest. 

I took advice from my stepson , he used to grow expensive mushrooms,  and sell them to the owner of the posh restaurant where he worked as a chef. 

We infected freshly cut oak logs , with native fungi.  As yet we've seen no signs of a mushroom payout.

[Stephen-H]

Mushroom season is only around the corner a lot of people are finding good amounts of chicken of the woods etc & puffballs already I would grab a couple good books & go for a stroll in the local woods plenty of good mushroom foraging groups on facebook for advice & helping identifying them 

[Windswept]

I've grown shiitake and oysters on logs. They can fruit in a year but it depends on various things such as size of the log and number of dowels used. The logs go on to fruit for a number of years after that.

[Ricko]

Grew them once from a kit,...I got 3 altogether.

The bottom picture looks like 'Earth Balls', inedible.

I used to pick Birch Boletus from under the trees near me, fry them up with garlic and butter!

I was reading a book the other day that said you should shake the mushroom over the ground after picking it to spread the spores, dont know how true that is.

[yod dropper]

Have done for years, Shiitake and Oyster varieties are easiest. Well worth it and you'll be able to grow what you can't buy - dinner plate sized oysters and with a little skill you'll be able to grow low temperature shiitake versions with a flavour that will blow away anything you've previously had. You can get really decent yields as well. PM me for a few extra details and a bit of guidance and then I can signpost you to my spawn supplier and his continually upgraded growing guides. I'll add some real world experience and other methods.

[JohnfromUK]

My father used to grow them - and had mushroom beds in an old low ceilinged brick built pigsty.  He managed to get some, but never reliably.  His view (if I remember right as this was 50 years ago) was that there was only a short period when the temperature/humidity was right (without assistance) in the UK.  It wasn't one of his great successes!

[ditchman]

its like growing forced rubard...................A DARK ART

[harrycatcat1]

Too much faff for me to be honest, I bought a big plastic pot of reduced price mushrooms the other day for 21p from Asda. I'd sooner go and buy them when I want them 👍

[enfieldspares]

19 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, if your near a mushroom grower buy some bags of old compost and spread on a nice grass area and  don't forget to water in 🤔😁 then sit back and wait till Autumn

That's what my late father did. Except in otherwise redundant cold frames. That way you know as near 100% as possible that what comes up is safe and edible.

[oldypigeonpopper]

2 hours ago, enfieldspares said:

That's what my late father did. Except in otherwise redundant cold frames. That way you know as near 100% as possible that what comes up is safe and edible.

Hello, it's a shame you don't find many wild mushrooms growing in the grass fields, maybe all the chemical spraying ??,