Mushroom growing blog

Going on holiday with a grow kit at home: what ...

The question arrives every school holiday and every summer: I am away for two weeks, will my grow kit die? No, if you put it on pause. Three methods, plus...

Going on holiday with a grow kit at home: what ...

The question arrives every school holiday and every summer: I am away for two weeks, will my grow kit die? No, if you put it on pause. Three methods, plus...

Why Cordyceps militaris cannot be sold in the E...

Two caterpillar fungi, two completely different legal worlds. The cultivable Cordyceps militaris cannot be sold as food in Europe, the uncultivable Cordyceps sinensis can. How that came about, what the...

Why Cordyceps militaris cannot be sold in the E...

Two caterpillar fungi, two completely different legal worlds. The cultivable Cordyceps militaris cannot be sold as food in Europe, the uncultivable Cordyceps sinensis can. How that came about, what the...

A bucket of oyster mushrooms on straw: step by ...

The cheapest way to grow a lot of oyster mushrooms is a bucket of straw, and it is also the way most beginners meet their first failure. Here is how...

A bucket of oyster mushrooms on straw: step by ...

The cheapest way to grow a lot of oyster mushrooms is a bucket of straw, and it is also the way most beginners meet their first failure. Here is how...

Chestnut mushroom: the golden clustered species...

Golden, glossy, with brown scales and a stem that still crunches after frying: the chestnut mushroom is the species that wants to grow on beech and poplar in a north...

Chestnut mushroom: the golden clustered species...

Golden, glossy, with brown scales and a stem that still crunches after frying: the chestnut mushroom is the species that wants to grow on beech and poplar in a north...

Pioppino: the Italian poplar mushroom that want...

Brown caps, white stems, in clusters on a poplar log, and a flavour Italians have valued for two thousand years. Pioppino is the easiest log mushroom after oyster, and one...

Pioppino: the Italian poplar mushroom that want...

Brown caps, white stems, in clusters on a poplar log, and a flavour Italians have valued for two thousand years. Pioppino is the easiest log mushroom after oyster, and one...

Maitake: from dancing mushroom to grow kit, and...

A rosette of hundreds of ruffled fronds, sometimes weighing kilos, at the foot of an oak: hen of the woods is the most impressive mushroom you can grow in a...

Maitake: from dancing mushroom to grow kit, and...

A rosette of hundreds of ruffled fronds, sometimes weighing kilos, at the foot of an oak: hen of the woods is the most impressive mushroom you can grow in a...