Which varieties are suitable for growing in the garden and cellar?
The most important thing for growing mushrooms in your own garden or cellar is a place that offers the respective mushroom variety suitable conditions for its growth. Suitable varieties for cultivation in your own home are, for example:
- Brown mushrooms
- White mushrooms
- Shiitake
- King Oyster Mushroom
- Brown caps
- Lime mushroom
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While the lime mushroom is usually on a piece of wood or a Tree trunk is cultivated, mushrooms find their ideal home on soaked straw bales or on coconut substrate.
What do you need to grow mushrooms?
In addition to the right place with a uniform microclimate and temperatures of around 15 to 20 degrees Celsius, you need for that Mushroom growing also a suitable growing medium and the spores for inoculating the material. You can purchase ready-made growing sets in specialist shops in which the substrate has already been inoculated with fungal spores and only needs to be poured. But you can also purchase spores in the form of rods, from which the mushroom mycelium can spread through the bale of straw or the coconut substrate.
Do mushrooms need light to grow?
Basically, fungi do not photosynthesize, but rather obtain their energy for growth in part as mycorrhizal fungi from a symbiosis with different tree and plant species. Thus, the fruiting bodies of the mushrooms also develop independently of the light irradiation, but the sunlight as a source of heat can promote the growth of the mushrooms. Mushrooms can be grown just as well in a light greenhouse, with a dark cellar providing better conditions for the Cultivation of mushrooms offers.
Tips & Tricks
As a rule, fungi can only be colonized in a desired location with suitable spore sets in the form of inoculation sticks. However, with a little luck, you can also be successful if you mix the leftovers of unwashed and uncooked edible mushrooms with the earth in a shady and moist place in the garden. The adhering fungal spores can cause the fungi to multiply under suitable conditions.
