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Today I planted our first mushrooms. It’s so easy, you don’t even have to be a gardener to do it 🙂 You can buy a kit like this one, which comes with everything you need and a set of instructions (we bought our kit from Bunnings). Inside, you’ll find a packet of mushroom compost and…

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Growing our own mushrooms

Mushroom kit: grow your own
Mushroom kit: grow your own

Today I planted our first mushrooms. It’s so easy, you don’t even have to be a gardener to do it 🙂

You can buy a kit like this one, which comes with everything you need and a set of instructions (we bought our kit from Bunnings). Inside, you’ll find a packet of mushroom compost and a packet of peat moss.

Inside the mushroom kit: compost and peat moss
Inside the mushroom kit: compost and peat moss

All you have to do is make some holes in the bottom of the container, spread out the compost and then the peat moss, and then wait for your mushrooms to start growing. The box needs to be kept in a dark place and the comost needs to be kept moist. This is truely simple gardening!

4 responses to “Growing our own mushrooms”

  1. Marie-Laure Avatar
    Marie-Laure

    Will be interesting to see what you think to the end result…don’t want to put a dampener on procedings, but I felt that it was a disappointing exercise. Mushrooms all matured at once, apart from one or two early ones, the taste was no different to shop bought mussies and cost-wise it turned out more expensive that buying from the shops. A fun thing with kids I feel, rather than a regular way of getting fresh mussies.
    I did look around for brown mushroom seed, in case they would be tastier, but haven’t manage to unearth any (boom! boom!)
    Good luck with yours though!

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  2. biggreencoat Avatar
    biggreencoat

    Our mushrooms got a nasty mould and never took off. We had them under the sink, perhaps it was a bad spot. I hope you have better success with yours.

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  3. Darren (Green Change) Avatar
    Darren (Green Change)

    How did they go? I’ve never had any luck at all with those types of kits.

    What did work for me was to buy bags of spent mushroom compost from a mushroom farm. I blogged about it here:

    Growing Mushrooms From Spent Mushroom Compost

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    1. James Avatar
      James

      I’m afraid, as suggested by others, that the kit was a bust. Miss P obtained a few mushrooms, and then it dried out. Doh!

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