Growing Mushrooms

If you have a green thumb, you may want to consider growing mushrooms.

If you are successful then you'll have delicious mushrooms to enhance just about any meal.

Growing mushrooms is not simple.  It requires precise conditions and constant attention.  With all of that, you may wind up with a heap of moldy wood chips (or whatever you’re using to grow them.)

The growing medium must be sterile and the environment must be precise.  If either the temperature or humidity are off for even a day, it can spell doom for your attempt.

The mushroom is a fungus that grows underground as mycelium.  When you dig down into your substrate, you will see fine threads.  This is the actual fungus.

Once it uses up the available nutrients, it will produce “fruit” in the form that we recognize as mushrooms.  These protrusions appear above ground in order to produce spores that can be blown to a new area full of nutrients.  When we grow  mushrooms, we control the environment so that it produces more mushrooms and spends less time underground.

So what do I recommend as your first project?  Just go to the store and buy a package of mushrooms.  It’s much easier and less expensive.

If you do decide to try it, then I wish you luck!