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Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 2:49 pm Post subject: Mushrooms
I have decided to try (again) to grow some button mushrooms I have space in one of my barns to try and was wondering if anyone had any tips. I am building a box lined with black plastic with a good lid and am filling it with suitable growing medium (surjestions welcome to alternatives) Have failed previously.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 3:47 pm Post subject:
No idea personally. Welcome aboard though. What scale are you planning on growing them on?

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 5:24 pm Post subject:
If I get enough to do a soup with I would consider it a victory

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 7:53 pm Post subject:
We have just had our first "flush" of oyster mushrooms from a box kit. Was very simple to do. Not sure if the value of the mushrooms will cover the cost of the kit yet.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 8:01 pm Post subject:
I've not had any success growing buttom mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) from grain spawn. I have had some success with those polystyrene kits. I would guess a decent online specialist would be able to provide more viable spawn. I have contemplated building a large bed with freshly rotted manure and then dumping in all the material from one of those kits to get a good start but not tried it yet.

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 9:14 pm Post subject:
I've also done those kits in the past but as we've just bought a small croft and I now have the space I want to try thinking bigger I have the packet spores and was looking to see if anyone had been sucsesfull with them.

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 9:18 pm Post subject:
Let us know how you get on - hello and welcome by the way...

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 12 9:25 pm Post subject:
I will do, like many great plans it's just changed I realised that I have an old stone drinking troff in the barn. filled with the three year old cow manure from outside and I have a ready made conainer thats 10 feet long just drape black plastic on top and im away. P.S I,m not that new to this forum my wife is "natureschild"

Bramleyapple

Joined: 25 Feb 2012
Posts: 5
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 12 12:35 pm Post subject:
I tried a box kit last year which promised 3 successive crops. The illustration sold it to me I harvested about half a dozen mushrooms in total. The kits were in Aldi again yesterday - I bought a pack of mushrooms instead!

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 12 11:42 am Post subject:
Just an update I have mycelia, with any luck mushrooms will be coming soon

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 12 5:42 pm Post subject:
Good luck, it sounds like you're on track for some shrooms. What company provided the spawn?

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 12 6:09 pm Post subject:
Suttons I'm overjoyed as I opened the pack last year i was prepared to accept needing a new pack but lets not count chickens before they hatch.

Woodburner

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 2904
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 12 12:52 pm Post subject:
Once the mycelia is developed, some fungi need a cold spell to get them fruiting. Not sure if this applies to regular mushrooms though, it's just something interesting I picked up somewhere. eta I think it was on telly, a smallish scale mushroom farm iirc

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 12 2:50 pm Post subject:

Bramleyapple wrote:

I tried a box kit last year which promised 3 successive crops. The illustration sold it to me

I harvested about half a dozen mushrooms in total. The kits were in Aldi again yesterday - I bought a pack of mushrooms instead!

Snap! I got just enough for a small stir-fry

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 12 3:07 pm Post subject:
glad i'm not the only one

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