Category: Mushrooms

Mushroom growing for an amateur gardenerActually, I wonder whether the word gardener suits a person engaged in mushroom growing, since mushrooms are fungi, and so can hardly be said to grow in a garden. In fact, mushrooms grow in a very different environment from plants and gardens, requiring a complete, or almost complete absence of…

Making the right growth medium needed for mushroom growingMost people who go in for mushroom growing just go out and buy both the spores (or spawn) and the growth medium. They do this because this is the easiest way to grow mushrooms. But if you are thinking of growing mushrooms commercially, this can add massively…

Just how easy is growing mushrooms?Is mushroom growing as easy as it’s made out to be? The answer is yes. This is because mushrooms are actually fairly simple organisms that require a very specific set of environmental conditions in which to grow. If they don’t have this set of conditions, they don’t grow. On the…

Just how does one go about mushroom growingThat’s an interesting question indeed, and you may well be stumped by it even if you happen to be an excellent gardener. Even if you’ve had your own well-kept lawns and garden for years, you may still find mushroom growing difficult, because the simple fact of the matter…

How to use a greenhouse for mushroom growingEveryone knows that mushroom growing needs a dark, moist area. But many people don’t realize that one can actually arrange an area that is sufficiently moist and dark in one’s own greenhouse. The fact that people don’t realize that they can potentially grow mushrooms right in their own…

How to make sure your mushroom growing doesn’t get derailThe key to successful mushroom growing is really the environment that you maintain, and the nutrient mix that you use. Mushrooms are not organisms that adapt well to a variable environment, so if you want to grow mushrooms, you’re going to have to ensure that the…

How to go about expanding on your mushroom growingMost things these days have been made exceedingly simple and mushroom growing is not an exception. There are mushroom growing kits that will have you growing mushrooms within an hour after the kit arise. However, relying upon somebody else’s expertise (and that is what you do when…

How to ensure that your mushroom growing is successfulA good many people think that mushroom growing must be something that is very difficult to do, and this is actually quite a serious misconception. Because the fact is that while growing mushrooms may not necessarily be easy, it’s not really all that difficult either, at least…

How mushroom growing can benefit the health of your entire familyMushroom growing may be more important to the health of your family than you may think. Our society is so heavily industrialized these days that the industrialization extends even to our food sources. That being that case, we find that a great many companies involved…

How long does mushroom growing take?Just how much time should it take you to harvest mushrooms from your mushroom growing. Well, if you like large mushrooms, these can take up to three months to mature fully. This means that if you want to have a mushroom meal regularly, you’re going to have to use a…