Mushroom Bed Experiment

[acy]

I put a raised bed in a couple of weeks back and took a few pictures of the installation. I'm growing tomatoes in the bed, along with wine cap stropharia mushrooms. While I've made up spawn on my own, I just ordered a couple of sacks of spawn from an internet vendor. I did not follow the instructions that come with the spawn, hence the

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[willowistari]

Growing mushrooms would be awesome!

I love your icon, too. ;)

[zakniteh]

Ooh, I'm intrigued by the idea of mushroom gardening. I've seen sites using moist cardboard, but never outside in a raised bed. Best of luck with those. =)

[stonelizard]

I have always wanted to grow my own mushrooms. Would love to hear more as your experiment progresses!

[acy]

I tried this last year with sweet potatoes and elm oyster mushrooms:

[megabitch]

*looks-at-mushrooms* *omnomnomnom*

[acy]

They were nommed long ago! I would suggest mulching mushroom beds well, though. It's not easy to get all of that grit off! Not a fun thing to nom.

[glamsith]

Your mushroom posts have been fascinating me (and making me drool) for some time.
Mushroom kits always say things like 65-degrees Farenheit in a dark place. And yet, these are outdoor pictured and your user info says you're in Texas... is the mushroom industry putting out false press to keep a corner on the market, or do you have sekrit information?

mushroom bed VS. Bag

[weldmaster80]

when the mycelium is forming it dose prefer dark, humid areas that have elevated CO2 enviroment, and to produse friut they need SOME light and redused CO2, that triggers the forming of pinheads that evnetualy become fruit (muchrooms) in nature the mycelium is underdround and tha provides the humid dark enviroment and the CO2 is from the mushrooms own resperation in a relatively confined space, when it rains the watter displaces the air in small holes and draws in freash air (low co2) that gets the pins started and once they break through the surfice of the dirt they hav continued lower co2 and light meeting all the requirement to produse the fruits, in a bag the rules are a little differant, cause of the confined space and the mycelium not being protected by a layer of dirt, is is far more sensative to climent and light