How to Grow Mushrooms

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Watch more Vegetable Gardening videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/410119-... • Mushrooms grow from spores, not seeds. You can grow this curious food indoors or out with a little preparation and the right supplies. • Step 1: Pick the right culture • Pick the right culture spores for your skill level -- oyster and button mushrooms are the easiest to grow, while shiitake and morel mushrooms can be difficult. • Tip • Search online for the different types of spores and their difficulties. • Step 2: Choose a growing area • Choose a growing area that is cool, dark, and free from pests that may eat or contaminate your mushroom farm. • Tip • The best growing areas are basements or crawl spaces. • Step 3: Apply soil • Spread a dark, nutrient-rich soil evenly over a level growing bed to a thickness of about 2 inches. • Step 4: Sterilize substrate • Sterilize your substrate by soaking it in hot water or putting it in a pressure cooker to kill undesirable fungi and bacteria that can ruin your mushroom batch. • Tip • Different species of mushrooms thrive on different substrates, like straw, compost, wood chips, sawdust, newspaper, or cardboard. • Step 5: Apply substrate • Apply the appropriate substrate or growing medium over your soil to feed your hungry mushroom spores. • Step 6: Implant spores • Implant or inoculate the substrate with your mushroom spores and fine tune the temperature and humidity levels based on the species. • Tip • Some varieties require higher humidity than others. You may need a humidity tent to increase humidity levels. • Step 7: Look for sprouts • Look for sprouting, or pinning, after about three weeks. The mushrooms will be ready for harvesting in as little as one month. • Did You Know? • A fungus colony discovered in Northern Oregon may be the largest single organism in the world, covering over 2,300 square acres -- that's about 1,665 football fields.

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