growing mushrooms in the garden

magicbastarder

anyone ever tried this before? i have freshly felled ash logs so am going to try to inoculate them, i have just ordered spawn off a chap in kerry.

so i'll try them in the logs, but since i do a bit of woodturning i should be able to generate quicker crops using the woodshavings method. and appaently some will do well on used coffee grounds also.

it used to be that it was a couple of companies in the UK were the go-to people for spawn, but none of them ship outside the UK anymore - for obvious reasons.

looksee

There's a few places doing both the innoculants and the pre-prepared bags, I got a couple of them as a Christmas gift for someone and they were a big hit.

Ubbquittious

I know someone who is growing them in a shed. Its apparently fierce amount of bother and there was a big outlay. They have to be kept at a certain temperature and everything very clean. Though maybe you can find less fussy varieties

magicbastarder

i'm going the lazy way; e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45b2t7fqhjA

and the method of inoculating logs similar to this, or using dowels:

https://www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/using-sawdust-spawn-to-inoculate-logs-saw-trench-technique/

unfortunately i've just read that the wood we have - ash - is not great for mushroom growing.

magicbastarder

bw, the same chap as above shows you don't need logs to do it, a simple method to do it is in a straw bed (albeit not one i'm planning); will probably try it in used coffee grounds though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVwqBqCnClI

looksee

https://ballyhouramushrooms.ie/store/Grow-Your-Own-Mushroom-Kits-c87667046

this is the crowd I ordered from, very helpful. I got the Grey Oyster and the Nameco. Both grew well but the Oyster was a big hit. I don't eat mushrooms so I don't know personally.

magicbastarder

going as planned so far, i think; this is about three and a half weeks after i started, definitely some progress. this is on ash woodshavings.

Danzy

With address pal you can have it delivered to an an post address in England and they then bring it to Ireland, very reasonable price.

looksee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118777660#Comment_118777660

Why do that? There are several places in Ireland that supply.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118777692#Comment_118777692

I didn't know that. There are things I had to get that I couldn't source here.

Danzy

Can you get field mushroom spawn in Ireland.

magicbastarder

not listed here, as far as i can see, but you could drop him a mail:

https://artisanmushrooms.ie/product/mushroom-grain-spawn/

Danzy

Nice one 👍

Got wine cap spawn last year that I put into a woodchip bed. Hopefully I'll harvest this year

How much mushrooms.woukd one expect from some spawn I really want to give this a go.

magicbastarder

i think it depends on the substrate you're growing them on. growing on logs takes much longer than shavings or coffee grounds, but i suspect will give a higher yield albeit over a much longer period of time.

magicbastarder

progress! i think they've started pinning.

Apiarist

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118802869#Comment_118802869

Nice! How did it work?