Among the edible mushrooms in this country, mushrooms are one of the types of mushrooms that can be cultivated relatively easily, even by beginners. However, you generally don't need plants to grow mushrooms, but rather spores or a growing substrate inoculated with fungal spores.
How to grow mushrooms successfully?
Mushrooms can be grown in a dark room such as a basement or garden shed. To do this, you need a constant temperature of 15-20 degrees Celsius, sufficient moisture and a substrate inoculated with spores, such as straw or growing sets.
Where can you grow mushrooms?
In the wild, forest and meadow mushrooms are found, as their name suggests, either under trees or sometimes in the middle of the lawn. However, targeted cultivation in the garden bed is difficult because there are too many other plants competing with the mushrooms for light, water and nutrients. Since mushrooms do not require light to grow, you can grow them in a basement or a dark garden shed without being bothered by other plants.
What do you need to grow mushrooms?
No special equipment is required for growing mushrooms. However, the following should be available for growing mushrooms:
- a preferably dark room
- a uniform cultivation temperature of around 15 to 20 degrees Celsius
- sufficient moisture
- inoculated substrate such as straw or an inoculated growing kit
How do you go about creating the substrate?
The straw or coconut substrate should first be wet and inoculated with the mushroom spores evenly in different places. With a complete package from the store, you usually only have to open the lid and water the substrate well. As soon as the mycelium of the champignon mushroom has permeated the substrate after about one to two weeks, the fruiting bodies appear on the surface in a relatively short time.
Can you grow mushrooms in the garden?
Specific cultivation of mushrooms is usually rather difficult, as even areas inoculated with spores can often be overgrown by other plants and weeds. However, you can risk-free experiment with growing mushrooms in the garden by mixing leftover unwashed mushrooms from the kitchen with the soil in a shady spot in the garden. Under certain conditions, this can lead to limited growth of the tasty edible mushrooms.
Tips & Tricks
If you harvest more mushrooms from your mushroom culture than you can use fresh, storing them in dried form is a good idea.
