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How To Grow Your Own Mushrooms

by How To Grow Mushrooms on April 5, 2010

Welcome to How To Grow Mushrooms…

Growing mushrooms at home is not only fun, easy, and really inexpensive, it’s also going to eliminate an additional (and often very expensive to buy) item off your grocery bill every time you visit the supermarket or grocery store.

At How To Grow Mushrooms we’re going to teach you exactly what you need to know to grow your own mushrooms at home. Soon you’ll be able to grow your own tasty, healthy mushrooms both indoors and/or outdoors for a year round supply for your own kitchen… and just maybe you’ll end up expanding your mushroom growing hobby to supply your extended family and friends with these tasty mushrooms too.

Here’s what you’ll learn…

…you’ll also learn techniques to growing mushrooms indoors, and also to growing mushrooms outdoors (or perhaps both) depending on your preference.

Here are the mushroom growing basics and what you’ll need to get started (these are often found in commercial mushroom growing kits available from your local garden center or hardware store)…

  1. Mushroom spores – these are the “seeds” or the source of your new mushrooms. Mushrooms being fungi do not have “seeds” as such, but rather propagate themselves via the dispersion of their spores. These are the most expensive part of your whole mushroom growing operation however you can pick up mushroom spores for between $10-$25 to get started.  You can then propagate your own mushrooms from that point forward.
  2. Growing medium – growing mediums for mushrooms are wide and varied but need to be kept relatively moist at all times. They include such things as (hardwood) woodchips, straw, saw dust, to coffee grounds, logs, and /or similar organic items. The medium is what your mushroom spores will grow in, consume, and turn into edible mushrooms.
  3. Other miscellaneous mushroom growing equipment – this can include such things as plastic bags (to store the growing medium in), boxes or trays to keep your mushroom growing bag in or to grow the mushrooms in directly, watering equipment and more. This growing equipment is all very inexpensive and will be discussed in more detail as we progress.