How to ensure that your mushroom growing is successful
A 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 if you know what you’re doing. If you’re here reading this article, you already realize that the internet is a wonderful resource and you can use it to learn the subtle skill that is mushroom growing. Once you know the basics you can go on to become an expert mushroom grower.
These days, even if something isn’t easy, it can be made easy by the large amount of ‘do-it-yourself’ companies out there. With the prices of commercial goods rising, and increasing amount of companies base their products around the concept of ‘do it yourself’. There are do it yourself laptop kits and do it yourself solar panel kits, and yes, mushroom growing isn’t an exception, because there are some wonderful do it yourself kits out there, and buying one of these kits would be an excellent step towards learning mushroom growing.
I would suggest that you go for the smallest kits. This is because these small kits are usually self-contained, and contain everything that you can possibly need to grow mushrooms, and this includes a container to provide the growing mushrooms with humidity and darkness. This container can be kept anywhere in the house, or even mounted upon a wall. You will also get a supply of growth medium with the kit and a supply of what is known as spawn, which is, to put it more simply, a collection of mushroom spores, that give rise to new mushrooms.
There will be clear instructions on how to put things together, of course, but that’s a simple job. And once you do, all it takes to ensure that the mushrooms grow is to water the growth medium regularly. Clear instructions on when and how to do this will also be provided with the kit, and you just have to follow them. Of course this is just a humble beginning – pretty soon you’ll want to expand, and can then by supplies of growth medium and spawn at a local gardening store to set things up on a larger scale. That’s all that it really takes to learn mushroom growing.
Ultimately you can even make your own growth medium and culture your own mushroom spawn to lower expenditure in your mushroom growing.