GROWING YOUR OWN WHITE BUTTON MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms ready to grow

Mushrooms ready to grow

Mushrooms ready to grow

White buttons mushrooms ready to harvest

Thermometer

Mushrooms at 21 days

I’ve just received yesterday, my very first Mushroom Kit from Livingseeds! I am so keen to start growing my own mushrooms and hope this Mushroom Kit will exceed all my expectations in harvesting fresh mushrooms daily for a few weeks at least, to fit nicely in with my organic vegetable growing production.

Here in Pinetown the temperature rises daily even in June – sometimes nearly up to 30 degrees C. if the berg wind is blowing too.

So to make it as cool and dark as possible for the Mushroom Kit to be very successful, I have decided to keep it between a brick wall passage leading off the courtyard into the kia and the toilet sections, hoping to keep the temperature cool enough to obtain between 17C to 19C temperature required for the successful mushroom production.

The mushroom kit I’ve placed on a plastic stool to keep the card-board box kit intact, which also keeps the bottom of the box cool too.

To keep it also as dark as possible, I’ve covered it loosely with an 80% shadenet cover to maintain the damp condition of the casing (which is the growing medium). I will just lift the cover off and spray with the spray bottle (included in the kit) at least twice a day. No more than one spray bottle full of water spraying at a time, as there are no drainage holes underneath the plastic bag which holds the compost and spores in the box, to let out excess water.

I will report the progress of my experiment in growing my own mushrooms later. Please keep fingers cross that I will be successful in later harvesting my very own fresh mushrooms for the pot.

Comments for
GROWING YOUR OWN WHITE BUTTON MUSHROOMS
AMAZING MUSHROOMS
by: Natalie Rowles

The mushrooms are growing now so fast that they require more than twice a day a fine spray of distilled water, with many small pinheads of mushrooms appearing in clusters.

As soon as the cap of the mushroom separates from the “ball” underneath to form its short stem, I will gently give the mushroom an upwards pull and a sidewards twist, then cut the short stem off as close to the casing as possible to harvest them.
I will only harvest as many mushrooms as I need for a meal and cooking them for seven minutes only to get the best nutritional benefits from them.
Mushrooms only need to be cleaned with a damp cloth as they are like sponges if rinsed under a tap, thereby absorbing too much water.

If you harvest the mushrooms a bit later after that, they will turn from white mushrooms into brown mushrooms, apparently tasting so much tastier as well.
Perfect Thermometer for Mushroom Production 
by: Natalie Rowles

My husband received a very handy gift from a friend of his that arrived back from Canada. It is a La Crosse thermometer that can give you inside as well as outdoor temperatures, which is an ideal tool for my mushroom production. I’ll ask Wendy to put the photo of this thermometer on top of this article.
White Button Mushroom Growing Tips
by: Natalie Rowles

Dear Lynn

Thanks for your encouragement – which I need so much to try and improve my vegetable growing production!

I have decided that the little spray bottle was too fiddly and got out an old ADLUS 500ml spray bottle which I’ve cleaned and filled with distilled water.
A few sprays of water over the mushroom casing in a few minutes did the morning spray programme and a few sprays in the late afternoon completed my care programme for watering the mushrooms for the day.

I’m so glad that I’ve covered my mushroom kit with a shadenet as I’ve noticed a few gecko droppings on top of the 80% green shadenet cover, which did not go onto the inside of the kit.
So cover your mushroom kit too to prevent this occuring as Pinetown has quite a lot of these geckoes inside homes.

Today there are more mushroom white blobs showing so in a few days’ time I will take a photo and ask Wendy to place it on this site.
Jun 26, 2012
Rating		 Report on the growing of the Mushrooms
by: Natalie

I am too scared to say it aloud – but it looks like there are white blobs of mushrooms showing underneath the 1/2mm of casing (11 days after sowing it) – should be fully up in a few days time!

The first few days I’ve used two full little spray bottle amounts of water – twice a day – spray is a bit on the fiddly side – struggles a bit – but found the solution – add to full and then it works better – but still can improve on that part.
The following days I only use half a bottle per spray – so one full bottle of sprayed water per day, so that it looks wet – but not too wet to cause problems. That’s the secret so far to be successful in mushroom production – treat gently and carefully and don’t let it dry out at all.
Still struggles with high day temperatures but night times seems to reach the 15-18 degrees C. so hope for the best.
Jun 18, 2012
Rating		 Home grown mushrooms
by: Lynn Kretschmer

With your green fingers and expertise on home grown organic vegetables, these white button mushrooms are sure to be a great success. Looking forward to seeing the end result!

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