Growing edible gourmet mushrooms at home in your garden has never been easier. The Fall season is a great time to order mushroom spawn and inoculate your garden. Stropharia rugosoannulata aka “Wine Cap” mushrooms are a delicious variety of edible mushroom that also helps to break down organic materials turning it into humus that builds healthy soil. Mushroom mycelium also has the unique ability to break down environmental pollutants like pesticides as well as aid in the removal of heavy metal contaminants found in toxic landscapes. Check out the resources below for more information. Cheers!
(Order Mushroom Spawn)The Garden Giant Mushroom Patch™: http://www.fungi.com/product-detail/product/the-garden-giant-mushroom-patch.html
6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
Growing King Stropharia (Wine Cap) Mushrooms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJIeVpGY2I&list=PLQSfuNd9n8Kwl20MuG3pTVOwldu8rDy5v
Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms: http://www.fungi.com/grow-gourmet-mushrooms.html
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Mushroom’s roots (mycélium).jpg By The original uploader was Lex vB at Dutch Wikipedia [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Alder sawdust and cow dung worked great for me in Seattle.
Great video!
is your patch from last year still growing?
Do these mushrooms come back year after year or do you need to redrawn it. Also can you plant where there is alot of sun?
Can you make your own mushroom spawn? Im interested in this but I do not want to have to keep buying a product for it to be productive, how do you do this in a way thats self sustaining?
But do you leave then the burlap in the garden?
Thanks!
You don't mention that if one uses mushrooms to help remediate toxic metals in soils one should NOT consume them. Also, do you use hardwood chips exclusively? My understanding is that one must use hardwood chips for the mycelium to colonize.
so interesting, i'd love to be able cultivate outdoor mushrooms consistently, i'll make a video if I ever try this technique
What kind of wood chips are you using for your stropharia?
It works ?
My worry with growing mushrooms in my garden is I use a lot of wood chips like you in my permaculture garden but I live in Long Island Ny and its not nearly as dry as California so I have all kinds of mushrooms all over. Knowing that many mushrooms are very toxic I'm worried about being able to identify the ones I'm growing to eat from the toxic ones. I know eating only one toxic mushroom can make a person seriously ill. Any advice?
I can't wait to do this for a living.
How long before seeing pins
I'm only 20, can't wait til I can afford a garden and start growing mushrooms and vegetables
Great video, do I dare add mushroom spores to a compost pile that I'm trying to hot compost? Or should I do this only in a cold compost bin?
how long does it take before you can harvest?
Is there a follow up to this video? Which method worked best? I just got my spawn in the mail and surprisingly have all the materials you used in this video! 😃🍄
I put in my first S. rugosoannulata bed the last of April. (Layered oak chips and wheat straw.) I see that the mycelium are running. (Yay!) I wonder if you have ever experimented with using smallish "kindling" sized branches in place of wood chips? The size I mean is as big as a good-sized finger, or in the range of mostly 3/4 of an inch or less in diameter, but not necessarily limited to that.
Out in nature, there are no naturally-occurring hardwood chips. 😀 Fallen barks and branches are about it. There's not really a lot of discussion of their natural habitat, the natural places where they flourish. From what I read, Wine Caps can be found growing on thick mats of dead grass, and "along stream beds", though the substrate there wasn't defined. Maybe it's grass debris as well.
Anyway, because I'm curious of their growth outside our cultivation, I'm planning on trying a substrate of kindling and fallen leaves and perhaps some dead grasses thrown in. Can you offer anything that might help me? Maybe you have noticed or have heard of where they have spread to from their plantings in wood chips, outside of other wood chip mulched areas not intended as a mushroom bed. Thanks.
All nice to put in your garden but make sure u eat the right ones and can these mushrooms spawn with other species?
As usual u do good videos. Thx