The cool thing about those mushroom kits is you can re-soak them and get more as well as cut openings in the other sides of the bag. You can get at least 3 to 4 harvests from just one kit. Also, you can make a bucket of more coffee and hay mix that they use for the kit and pour the remaining mycelium in the new coffee ground mix that you made and mix it up to grow even more! These kits are not just one time use kits. Also, once your done with the kit you can compost it. It brings really good nutrients to your garden.
As long as you keep adding new substrate for the mycelium you can keep it going for a long time. I have had mine going for three years. You just need to make sure to keep feeding the mycelium.
Right after one of your videos of the 10 items you would grow I purchased 2 mushroom kits and it is already growing I bought a book and it will show me how to grow a mushroom garden of my own. No more kits even, your videos have brought my love of gardening back to me. Thank you.
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Spent mushroom substrate can also be used to inoculate your garden to get flushes straight out of the ground while improving your soil. Wine Caps and Oyster are the best options for garden inoculation.
@@jessicapearson9479 I'm thinking of getting a white button kit for my daughter. To get the most and longest yield, sounds like I should replicate the substrate and spread the spawn out amongst the replicated substrate? And how should I introduce the buttons into my food forest/ garden?
I have always grown them in buckets with holes drilled into them or from log kits. I think you should start with a kit first see how that goes. Then you'll need to do some soil tests and find the right spot in your food forest that will match with the natural settings where they would grow in the wild. If need be add amendments to the area you plan on doing them even if it is a decomposing log or healthy log. But the best way I have found is just buying the kits premade. Getting a 5 or 10 gallon bucket drilling holes and filling it up with the same sterilized substrate as you have in your kit (there are videos of how to do that) and then pulling your mushroom kit open. Gently mix the kit with the new substrate you made. Let the kit inoculate your new substrate and harvest when ready. If you want more natural looking they do sell pegs that have been inoculated with mycelium that you can put into logs. By going that route you can get a far wider variety of mushrooms. And they would do well in a food forest provided you get ones that would naturally grow in your climate and environment. Amazon sells tons of kits and pegs.
I bought a couple of kits and several batches of inoculated spores, however none of these worked, the medium always going green (mould) in no time. It didn't seem to matter how careful I was about keeping things clean, the same result ensued. (I followed instructions to the letter and as I am an experienced grower from seed I know all about the value of keeping things 'clean'). I put this down to the area I live, which is very humid throughout the year and already a fungi mega-paradise (I forage for wild mushrooms, have introduced some wild species to my garden very successfully, but still wanted to grow some Oysters indoors to be available all-year-round). Mould problems are commonplace when growing mushrooms, so I thought of a way of combatting it. Since I'd had enough of paying out for kits and spores, I used an Oyster mushroom from a mushroom pack bought from a supermarket instead. Fed up of failing with the usual types of medium (compost, hay, coffee grounds, cardboard, etc), I used a block of Birch chips bought from Home Bargains (must use hardwood chips, never pine chips). These blocks are actually sold as firelighters, but they do not have any sort of extra fuel added to them. I popped this block into a scrupulously cleaned plastic bag (already tested to ensure it could withstand high temperatures) and added boiling water to re-sterilise the bag and to sterilise the block of wood chips at the same time. I immediately closed the bag tight with a tie and let the whole thing stew. Once cooled, I put on clean gloves, opened bag, fluffed up the chips, chucked in the Oyster mushroom, tied it up again, and shoved the whole thing in the bottom, back corner of my fridge for a couple of months. The idea behind this was - at low temperatures, Oyster mushroom mycelium is a much more aggressive grower than mould. So, in cooler temperatures, it had a chance to completely colonise the medium first. It worked. In fact it's worked 3 times, because I made up 3 bags in the same way that day (we never use 'all' the fridge anyway, so it wasn't as if we'd miss the space). Once each bags became solid with mycelium, I stood it in a clean, deep tray, slit it with a knife, gave it a quick spray, and then covered it with horticultural fleece (as we tend to have a great many little flies around here just waiting to eat any fungi around). By removing the bags at different intervals from the fridge, each one quickly blooming, there's a constant supply of mushrooms, and I haven't had to buy any Oysters in months.
This is incredible Debbie - I'm genuinely floored by your ingenuity and persistence. Well done! What a fantastic result. I'm definitely going to have to try this myself. Thank you so much for sharing this technique.
Your little girl is just precious. I used to grow mushrooms long ago. I think I will do it again thank you. Don't hide your little girl we love seeing her and Rosie
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Oh, the Dad jokes keep coming! 😂 I honestly never thought of growing mushrooms. Looks like a fun winter project. I'm going to have a dig around to see what I can find. Love it! 👍
The holes in the container can be much smaller than that. I prefer quarter inch holes. For more finicky mushrooms, I recommend using boiling water to hydrate the medium, oysters are resilient, but a lot of other cultivated shrooms aren't so. Also, using Brewer's iodine rather than chlorine is my preferred sanitizer, I just feel better about potentially ingesting it, plus it has some nice color indication on how it's working.
@@sebmathewsvideo oysters are really the only species you can easily get away with cultivating in this style. In similar methods you can grow lion's mane, shitake, pioppino, and many others, you just have to be much more thorough with sanitization, with a pressure cooker being recommended.
Your enthusiasm & humor is the growing medium that will inoculate and spawn more mushroom growing, now where do I get the coffee grounds version that grow my morels, .... I'm all (wood) ear,s and your daughter is en-chante..relle-ing!
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Apart from all the useful information that this video provides, I found it quite relaxing to watch and your British accent contributed big time to that effect as well 😄
I inoculated the stump of a huge cottonwood (c. 3' /1 m across) with oyster mushrooms (since they don't look like any others, you can't mix them up with random other species that might come up in the yard). For years I got flushes of mushrooms when we had a cool, moist spell. This past summer the fungi had broken down the stump enough for me to break up the remainder, and had the most amazing soil left behind! "Mycelium Running" is a great book by Paul Stamets, whether you are in to raising fungi, or just want to learn some really cool stuff--like how fungi can be used to clean up contaminated soil, or even radioactive waste!
I've heard great things along these lines too. I haven't had a chance to watch it, but the series on fungi on Netflix comes highly recommended apparently.
Thank you so much for sharing on how to go about planting these mushrooms and how to take care of them he did a great job on the video and gave lots of inspirational information I may have to try this out it was fun watching a video and enjoy how do you explain step-by-step how to take care of them and how to plant thank you so much for a great video I can’t wait to see more of your contact. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie
Except me I like mycoprotien. Mushrooms a clean non toxic protein source. Great with Olive oil steam sauteed vegetables . Onions garlic cabbage cauliflower broccoli ..
That was fun, Ben. I have done the oyster mushroom kit in the box...amazing. I also buy the wine cap spawn in sawdust to sprinkle on wood chips in the garden. Great crop from that! Love to see your adorable daughter...Happy Holidays and blessings...love your videos! ❤️
Different mushrooms grow well on different substrates. Beech wood is sometimes used but I’m not sure about pine. This website has some quite handy information, and they may be able to advise on what’s suitable for pine: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/mediums-and-substrates/
Great video thanks Ben. I also don't like waste and was looking forward to seeing how you used your bowl of coffee grounds but you didn't show that. Did I miss something?
If you are growing mushrooms directly in the wood, then I can't see why it would be a problem to have bark missing/loose. The important thing is that the wood is generally fresh, so there's less chance of 'weed' fungi.
Thank you for sharing so many different tips about different products you can buy to grow mushrooms I may have to get one or two of these different kids to try them out for myself thank you so much for sharing them with us
I used straw pellets that came with the kit. This is where I sourced them from, and you can buy the pellets separately: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/mediums-and-substrates/
Loved the first part of this as, l watched someone else make it look SOOO complicated it almost put me off but, I think l got confused over the coffee and straw kit. Do YOU add YOUR left over coffee grounds or are they IN the kit when it arrives? Thanks.
@@GrowVeg That’s great. Thank you. I was hoping it might be a way to recycle some of my coffee ground output. Will just keep composting it in the meantime.
You need to grow them indoor? I dont have much space inside but i live in a zone 9 which is fairly warm year round. Any kind of mushroom can be grown outside?
Many mushrooms can be grown outside. You may want to look at mushroom logs or similar. Growing them in materials outside in a shady spot. These kits could be growing outside in the summer or autumn I would think. Just not when it is freezing cold.
You could make a reusable kit that ensures the plastic tub is used time and again: th-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=69WZvWtEDOHi0fqj Or you could just make your own container from something else - a wooden tub might well work, or even repurposing an old book or clothing made from natural fibers.
@@GrowVeg OK thank you very much. I have some oak whiskey barrel curved loose slats I was intending to cut them down to size, reconfigure into a suitable round tub with say 20-25mm gaps so that the mushrooms can grow out of them? would the gap be about right do you think? Thanks in advance for your expert opinion.
I'm not sure this would work so well. You can, however, use straw very effectively, as in this video: th-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HpnTVcFGvCxrzEIn
Both were kits supplied by the two UK-based companies listed in the video description. Here in the UK, this company is really good for inoculated spawn: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/contact-form/
Hi Nicholas. I have taken a look. It possibly could be, but I am not sure what else the pellets might have been treated with. It says naturally antibacterial, but I wonder if there are other treatments applied to it? It might be worth calling up there helpdesk to find out exactly what goes into them. If it is just would, then you might want to try a small batch first to see if it works. At that price it would certainly be a cost-effective growing medium
I've never grown it, but I know you can also buy kits for growing lion's mane, so it would certainly be worth a try. I've heard it's amazingly good for you.
Here’s another question, is it possible to buy seeds or something that can stay dormant until and if I need it from my prepping pantry years down the road? Kinda like heirloom seeds?
Thank you Ben. You made it look so easy!!! I watched a few videos where it looked like a chemistry lab with petri dish, dehydrator, pressure cooker and the whole shebang and all I can think of is that I'm not ready for growing mushroom as its more complicated than I thought. Then I watched your video and I am so giddy I can do it. LOL. I just bought mycelium (not a kit), my question is how can I sterilised straws or sawdust to spread my mycelium please? Thank you and happy new year!
So pleased you've found the video handy. I have only ever grown mushrooms using these kits, and they are usually so productive that it works out very cost effective. I haven't sterilised my own straw or sawdust, but you can buy these substrate from suppliers (e.g. www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/). I would suggest buying in pre-sterilised straw for best results, as you can be assured of a very pure and reliable product.
Just Steriise using Boiled Hot Water (100C). Tip: You can get an Old Jam Pan, add Medium, and lots of Water and heat it up on maybe an outside Fire/BBQ Kit/ a Portable Camp Stove etc. Allow it to "Cool totally well Covered" ! (You don't want Spores blown into that Sterile Stewed up Medium (!) Or, if your very careful, do small amounts in a Microwave Lidded Container... (Not your best Food one !) Again, do it until its reaches a Sterilising Temperature ! Tip Get a Jam Thermometer to repeatedly check that Temperature ! *You Must do it with added Water* otherwise dry material might start to smoulder and Burn 🔥 so watch it at all times. I don't buy kits, just make my own Medium or similar, add it into a premade Growing Space. (Some go and buy Shop bought Mushrooms, collect the Spores off them, and make their own Growing Kit.) If you have the time and patience. Does take Months, but it's cheap, compared to the Kits. 😉
I just moved and my yard is nothing but clay. It's good for grass but not so much for plants. It took me years at my old house to turn the soil into good planting soil by composting. Now I must start all over here but coffee grounds definitely help for the compost. I dig a big hole and throw everything in it and mix with soil. I turn it as I add more and after a while it will be good dark planting soil. Anyway I may use my coffee grounds for mushrooms. My old house was surrounded by woods so I had an easy time finding mushrooms. Unfortunately now I only have just under an acre and I live on the outskirts or town in the burbs so it's a bit more difficult lol. I used to have bears and all kinds of critters getting into my composting pile which I'm worried will happen here and annoy my neighbors. My yard is completely fenced in so it might prevent that but it's just chain link so who knows. Anyway I may just try making mushrooms and settle with a small garden which is why I'm watching these videos. I did purchase a mushroom grow kit the other day and I figure after it's done I can just continue to grow them in buckets or something. I love my new house but miss my old yard lol.
It sounds like your old yard was awesome - having bears turn your compost for you is quite something! :-) Enjoy the mushroom growing - it's strangely satisfying.
Hi Ben, great content! Quick one, when you grow them in the bucket on your own without any kit what is the ratio between parts: coffee grounds, mushroom spawn and straw pellets pls? Many thks in advance.
Hi João. I've only used the kits myself, so would be unsure of the exact ratios to use. The kit where I used straw pellets used just the pellets and no coffee grounds. I bought it from here: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
Yes, in theory you can do that. I've never done that, and you'd need to get the conditions right - but that is how mushrooms spread, so there's no reason you couldn't try that.
Check out the links in the video description for good suppliers of mushroom kits. Once the kits are done you can often spread the old growing medium (containing spores) on suitable material outdoors to keep harvests coming.
Different fungi prefer different types of wood - usually hardwood, so I'm not sure about the suitability of pine wood pellets. But at that price it may be worth trying - that's a great price.
This came as a kit, with everything you needed (except the bucket). This website gives a good indication as to the amount of spawn you might need: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/
Yes, in theory you can let the spores drop on a suitable substrate and then they will colonise that. In much the same way as you would save your own seeds to sow elsewhere.
All you need to do is chop up one of your new mushrooms when mature, put it in a blender with water, and then mix that with your growing substrate. You can use just about anything for the substrate - cardboard (cut into small pieces), coffee grounds, straw or hay (cut to 3-4 inches), etc. Just be sure to boil it for 30 minutes to sterilize it and decant the water prior to mixing in the mycelium. Also let it cool before mixing.
I believe they can be grown with some difficulty. Here's a great article on them: grocycle.com/puffball-mushrooms-guide/ Will certainly consider this for a future video.
I remember many years ago that local stables in E Sussex had their muck picked up to be used for mushroom farms in old railway tunnels. It was a good way to recycle waste, shame it is not used now.
Hahaha I loved the mushroom puns at the end 🙂 great video! I love mushrooms so I'll have to give this a try! I've also been silently enjoying your other videos, thanks for all the great content!
We have a patch of woodland on our property - just walk down to the end of the lawn and straight into the woods. Can the Mushroom kit be mixed as shown and sprinkled on to the dead trees in the woods? Will the 'shrooms grow, and when is the best time to sow the spores? thank you
Yes, once the kit is done, you can break it up to spread the remains outside onto a suitable growing medium. The makers of the first kit suggest wood chips. I guess the best time of year to do this might be anytime during the growing season, but I imagine it would be fine in a mild winter too.
You can use recently cut wood, yes. Different types of wood are preferred by different mushrooms. The mushrooms are breaking things down, so soil on its own isn't usually suitable - they need a nutrient-rich substrate to feed off (like wood, straw, etc).
The kit used in the second part of the video was very specific - it had a section that you had to cut open. Once you've harvested the kit and soaked it again, new mushrooms will sprout from the same area.
@@GrowVeg I'm asking as I tried that with a lions mane grow kit a few months ago and I was greatly disappointed. The crop I got was pretty bad. I had to ask the seller if I should be celebrating or cry for the whole thing was a huge disappointment. And I know that I dont have a BLACK thumb
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Ben tried growing mushrooms , don't know if my house is to cold but only got 2 mushrooms. It took 5 weeks to even get any mycelium, saw a few tiny mushrooms them nothing
You really outdid yourself here. Great fun and good advice! I have jaw trouble and can't eat oyster mushrooms easily, but I've considered growing winecaps.
The cool thing about those mushroom kits is you can re-soak them and get more as well as cut openings in the other sides of the bag. You can get at least 3 to 4 harvests from just one kit. Also, you can make a bucket of more coffee and hay mix that they use for the kit and pour the remaining mycelium in the new coffee ground mix that you made and mix it up to grow even more! These kits are not just one time use kits. Also, once your done with the kit you can compost it. It brings really good nutrients to your garden.
Absolutely Jessica - it's a very efficient way to grow mushrooms. I'm loving my kits!
Well said Jessica! You just stretched my vision of the use of one ....much love!!
I was contemplating this since its just me, to stretch out the use of it. Glad to know it can work!
As long as you keep adding new substrate for the mycelium you can keep it going for a long time. I have had mine going for three years. You just need to make sure to keep feeding the mycelium.
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Right after one of your videos of the 10 items you would grow I purchased 2 mushroom kits and it is already growing I bought a book and it will show me how to grow a mushroom garden of my own. No more kits even, your videos have brought my love of gardening back to me. Thank you.
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Hello how can I get some of the kits? I am new in learning how to grow mushrooms
Thank you for your videos!! I am an old widow woman that has been gardening vegetables and flowers since I was about 5-6 years old.
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Thank you for watching, and God bless you too.
Spent mushroom substrate can also be used to inoculate your garden to get flushes straight out of the ground while improving your soil. Wine Caps and Oyster are the best options for garden inoculation.
As well as hen of the woods, buttons, morels and more.
@@jessicapearson9479 I'm thinking of getting a white button kit for my daughter.
To get the most and longest yield, sounds like I should replicate the substrate and spread the spawn out amongst the replicated substrate?
And how should I introduce the buttons into my food forest/ garden?
I have always grown them in buckets with holes drilled into them or from log kits. I think you should start with a kit first see how that goes. Then you'll need to do some soil tests and find the right spot in your food forest that will match with the natural settings where they would grow in the wild. If need be add amendments to the area you plan on doing them even if it is a decomposing log or healthy log.
But the best way I have found is just buying the kits premade. Getting a 5 or 10 gallon bucket drilling holes and filling it up with the same sterilized substrate as you have in your kit (there are videos of how to do that) and then pulling your mushroom kit open. Gently mix the kit with the new substrate you made. Let the kit inoculate your new substrate and harvest when ready.
If you want more natural looking they do sell pegs that have been inoculated with mycelium that you can put into logs. By going that route you can get a far wider variety of mushrooms. And they would do well in a food forest provided you get ones that would naturally grow in your climate and environment. Amazon sells tons of kits and pegs.
@@jessicapearson9479 thanks so much for the tips.
I get stuck in a trance during the mushrooms transformations clips. It’s so soothing and satisfying ❤
I bought a couple of kits and several batches of inoculated spores, however none of these worked, the medium always going green (mould) in no time.
It didn't seem to matter how careful I was about keeping things clean, the same result ensued. (I followed instructions to the letter and as I am an experienced grower from seed I know all about the value of keeping things 'clean').
I put this down to the area I live, which is very humid throughout the year and already a fungi mega-paradise (I forage for wild mushrooms, have introduced some wild species to my garden very successfully, but still wanted to grow some Oysters indoors to be available all-year-round).
Mould problems are commonplace when growing mushrooms, so I thought of a way of combatting it.
Since I'd had enough of paying out for kits and spores, I used an Oyster mushroom from a mushroom pack bought from a supermarket instead.
Fed up of failing with the usual types of medium (compost, hay, coffee grounds, cardboard, etc), I used a block of Birch chips bought from Home Bargains (must use hardwood chips, never pine chips). These blocks are actually sold as firelighters, but they do not have any sort of extra fuel added to them.
I popped this block into a scrupulously cleaned plastic bag (already tested to ensure it could withstand high temperatures) and added boiling water to re-sterilise the bag and to sterilise the block of wood chips at the same time. I immediately closed the bag tight with a tie and let the whole thing stew.
Once cooled, I put on clean gloves, opened bag, fluffed up the chips, chucked in the Oyster mushroom, tied it up again, and shoved the whole thing in the bottom, back corner of my fridge for a couple of months.
The idea behind this was - at low temperatures, Oyster mushroom mycelium is a much more aggressive grower than mould. So, in cooler temperatures, it had a chance to completely colonise the medium first.
It worked. In fact it's worked 3 times, because I made up 3 bags in the same way that day (we never use 'all' the fridge anyway, so it wasn't as if we'd miss the space).
Once each bags became solid with mycelium, I stood it in a clean, deep tray, slit it with a knife, gave it a quick spray, and then covered it with horticultural fleece (as we tend to have a great many little flies around here just waiting to eat any fungi around).
By removing the bags at different intervals from the fridge, each one quickly blooming, there's a constant supply of mushrooms, and I haven't had to buy any Oysters in months.
This is incredible Debbie - I'm genuinely floored by your ingenuity and persistence. Well done! What a fantastic result. I'm definitely going to have to try this myself. Thank you so much for sharing this technique.
Your little girl is just precious. I used to grow mushrooms long ago. I think I will do it again thank you. Don't hide your little girl we love seeing her and Rosie
Thanks Cherokee, that’s very kind of you to say.
"Really, I should button it". I howled with laughter--thank you!
Ah brill - got to love a mushroom pun!
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Thanks so much for sharing Ben, I never realized how easy it is to grow mushrooms. Can't wait to give a go.
Enjoy Donna - they're great fun!
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Here where I live coffee is consumed heavily on daily basis (Algeria) I can recycle coffee without much effort and make tone of buckets. Thanks for the idea 💡
Oh, the Dad jokes keep coming! 😂 I honestly never thought of growing mushrooms. Looks like a fun winter project. I'm going to have a dig around to see what I can find. Love it! 👍
It is great fun Robin - thoroughly recommended.
Amazon has tons of different kits and even more mycelium inoculated pegs giving you even more choices.
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The puns! 🤣 Also, loved the cameo from your daughter, you're raising her to have the proper reaction to puns 👍
She's a pro at rolling her eyes at me now. The dad jokes tend to draw more groans than giggles!
You tell the best Dad jokes, ROFLMAO... no, really!
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The holes in the container can be much smaller than that. I prefer quarter inch holes. For more finicky mushrooms, I recommend using boiling water to hydrate the medium, oysters are resilient, but a lot of other cultivated shrooms aren't so. Also, using Brewer's iodine rather than chlorine is my preferred sanitizer, I just feel better about potentially ingesting it, plus it has some nice color indication on how it's working.
There are brilliant tips - thanks so much for sharing them.
What other types of mushrooms have you grown using this method?
@@sebmathewsvideo oysters are really the only species you can easily get away with cultivating in this style. In similar methods you can grow lion's mane, shitake, pioppino, and many others, you just have to be much more thorough with sanitization, with a pressure cooker being recommended.
No, they make numerous kits that you can grow mushrooms from without doing anymore than what you saw in the video.
@@jessicapearson9479 those kits have already been sterilized and inoculated by the provider.
Love it. I have blue oyster shrooms growing as I speak. I want to grow wine caps outside next.
Mmm - they sound yum!
Your enthusiasm & humor is the growing medium that will inoculate and spawn more mushroom growing, now where do I get the coffee grounds version that grow my morels, .... I'm all (wood) ear,s and your daughter is en-chante..relle-ing!
Very, very nice Mark! Top man with those puns! Virtual high-five back at yer!
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Brilliant - great timing!
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Lol, my "back to the roots" oyster mushroom kit decided to start itself, it's fantastic!!!
Great video, I worry about the inoculated part.
Inoculated with what exactly is there a list?
By inoculated I just mean 'seeded' with the mushroom spawn, that's all. :-)
The mushroom puns were awesome. I need to get back into mycology after watching this video.
I've been meaning to try growing mushies for ages. Feeling inspired now. Thanks 🌏💙🤎💚🌿🍃🌱🖐🍄
There are tons of different kits on Amazon. You should check it out!!
very good! just bought a box kit last week and havent started it yet.
Awesome video! I never had those kind but I love portobello, button and baby bellas.
I love those easy to grow oyster mushroom boxes, so yummy sauteed in a bit of duck fat
Apart from all the useful information that this video provides, I found it quite relaxing to watch and your British accent contributed big time to that effect as well 😄
Wonderful to hear - thanks so much for watching.
I just got a kit as a gift and I can’t wait to use all this sage advice!
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I inoculated the stump of a huge cottonwood (c. 3' /1 m across) with oyster mushrooms (since they don't look like any others, you can't mix them up with random other species that might come up in the yard). For years I got flushes of mushrooms when we had a cool, moist spell. This past summer the fungi had broken down the stump enough for me to break up the remainder, and had the most amazing soil left behind! "Mycelium Running" is a great book by Paul Stamets, whether you are in to raising fungi, or just want to learn some really cool stuff--like how fungi can be used to clean up contaminated soil, or even radioactive waste!
I've heard great things along these lines too. I haven't had a chance to watch it, but the series on fungi on Netflix comes highly recommended apparently.
I forgot how I love these videos. Thank you for doing them !
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Very nice video. I'll have to give this a try.
Thank you so much for sharing on how to go about planting these mushrooms and how to take care of them he did a great job on the video and gave lots of inspirational information I may have to try this out it was fun watching a video and enjoy how do you explain step-by-step how to take care of them and how to plant thank you so much for a great video I can’t wait to see more of your contact. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie
Thanks so much for watching, I'm so pleased you enjoyed the video. Hugs and kisses back :-)
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Could you post the link for the mushrooms 🍄 can’t wait to try them 😊
The links should be in the video description. :-)
Except me I like mycoprotien. Mushrooms a clean non toxic protein source. Great with Olive oil steam sauteed vegetables . Onions garlic cabbage cauliflower broccoli ..
Delicious and nutritive plant-based meals are coming ...
Thanks so much. Youve inspired me to grow my own mushrooms.
That’s really lovely to hear. 😀
And me 😂😂
That was fun, Ben. I have done the oyster mushroom kit in the box...amazing. I also buy the wine cap spawn in sawdust to sprinkle on wood chips in the garden. Great crop from that! Love to see your adorable daughter...Happy Holidays and blessings...love your videos! ❤️
I'd love to grow mushrooms outdoors - that's the next project. And a very happy holidays to you too Helen. :-)
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I have to figure out where I can get my hands on a mushroom growing kit. So cool
Can you reuse mycelium from one pot to another after first harvest for example, or you need buy every time new mycelium?
You could, in theory recycle the mycelium indefinitely.
Absolutely loving your videos, they are well presented with lots of really useful information, thank you.
That's kind of you to say, thanks.
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Can I use pine wood stove pellets - they look just like the straw pellets?
Different mushrooms grow well on different substrates. Beech wood is sometimes used but I’m not sure about pine. This website has some quite handy information, and they may be able to advise on what’s suitable for pine: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/mediums-and-substrates/
@@GrowVeg Thank you. I will check it out.
This video is so good, I'm gonna give growing mushrooms a go. Thank you!
Nice one Jerry!
Great video thanks Ben. I also don't like waste and was looking forward to seeing how you used your bowl of coffee grounds but you didn't show that. Did I miss something?
Hi John. The second kit shown, using the box, comes with its own growing medium, derived from coffee grounds.
Do you believe it is necessary to use logs that have the bark intact? Would/Could you use logs where the bark is loose or fallen off?
If you are growing mushrooms directly in the wood, then I can't see why it would be a problem to have bark missing/loose. The important thing is that the wood is generally fresh, so there's less chance of 'weed' fungi.
Is there a fertilizer, or nutrient powder you can place in the straw to feed the mushrooms?
To be honest they don't really need extra fertilizer - there's all they need in the straw.
Thank you for sharing so many different tips about different products you can buy to grow mushrooms I may have to get one or two of these different kids to try them out for myself thank you so much for sharing them with us
Fab video. I have question. What are the correct wood pellets to buy please? I'm UK based. Thanks
I used straw pellets that came with the kit. This is where I sourced them from, and you can buy the pellets separately: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/mediums-and-substrates/
Love your sense of humour!🍄🍄🍄
Hi, i worry about introducing spores into my home. Is that not a concerns?
I wouldn't worry about that at all. It's certainly caused no issues in my home.
@@GrowVeg Thank you so much.
Loved the first part of this as, l watched someone else make it look SOOO complicated it almost put me off but, I think l got confused over the coffee and straw kit. Do YOU add YOUR left over coffee grounds or are they IN the kit when it arrives? Thanks.
They are in the kit when it arrives. I will be doing another video on growing mushrooms. In straw later on this autumn. Watch out for that! :-)
@@GrowVeg That’s great. Thank you. I was hoping it might be a way to recycle some of my coffee ground output. Will just keep composting it in the meantime.
You need to grow them indoor? I dont have much space inside but i live in a zone 9 which is fairly warm year round. Any kind of mushroom can be grown outside?
Many mushrooms can be grown outside. You may want to look at mushroom logs or similar. Growing them in materials outside in a shady spot. These kits could be growing outside in the summer or autumn I would think. Just not when it is freezing cold.
Good and informative video, However, as I'm anti plastic can I make a wooden tub or container leaving gaps in the boards instead of holes? thanks
You could make a reusable kit that ensures the plastic tub is used time and again: th-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=69WZvWtEDOHi0fqj
Or you could just make your own container from something else - a wooden tub might well work, or even repurposing an old book or clothing made from natural fibers.
@@GrowVeg OK thank you very much. I have some oak whiskey barrel curved loose slats I was intending to cut them down to size, reconfigure into a suitable round tub with say 20-25mm gaps so that the mushrooms can grow out of them? would the gap be about right do you think? Thanks in advance for your expert opinion.
Can u use cococoir ?
I'm not sure this would work so well. You can, however, use straw very effectively, as in this video: th-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HpnTVcFGvCxrzEIn
Where did you get the pellets from. Thanks
I got them from Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
Other suppliers of kits are listed in the video description.
What quantities are you using please - Straw pellets and spawn? Also supplier of inoculated spawn recommendations please?
Both were kits supplied by the two UK-based companies listed in the video description. Here in the UK, this company is really good for inoculated spawn: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/contact-form/
Do you think this would be a good growing medium "Pets at Home Wood Pellet Non Clumping Cat Litter" ?
Hi Nicholas. I have taken a look. It possibly could be, but I am not sure what else the pellets might have been treated with. It says naturally antibacterial, but I wonder if there are other treatments applied to it? It might be worth calling up there helpdesk to find out exactly what goes into them.
If it is just would, then you might want to try a small batch first to see if it works.
At that price it would certainly be a cost-effective growing medium
Hi Ben I love your videos thank you so much, do you know how to grow lion’s mane?
I've never grown it, but I know you can also buy kits for growing lion's mane, so it would certainly be worth a try. I've heard it's amazingly good for you.
Thanks for such excellent videos. You have inspired me to get of my Kyber Pass and get this going!
Love the cockney rhyming slang there - brilliant! :-)
When the shrooms open to spore, we can place a medium block under to spawn a new batch?
Yes, you could certainly do that - re-seed a new batch.
thank you good sir. i think ill buy a kit for a first try!
Here’s another question, is it possible to buy seeds or something that can stay dormant until and if I need it from my prepping pantry years down the road? Kinda like heirloom seeds?
Thank you Ben. You made it look so easy!!! I watched a few videos where it looked like a chemistry lab with petri dish, dehydrator, pressure cooker and the whole shebang and all I can think of is that I'm not ready for growing mushroom as its more complicated than I thought. Then I watched your video and I am so giddy I can do it. LOL. I just bought mycelium (not a kit), my question is how can I sterilised straws or sawdust to spread my mycelium please? Thank you and happy new year!
So pleased you've found the video handy. I have only ever grown mushrooms using these kits, and they are usually so productive that it works out very cost effective. I haven't sterilised my own straw or sawdust, but you can buy these substrate from suppliers (e.g. www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/). I would suggest buying in pre-sterilised straw for best results, as you can be assured of a very pure and reliable product.
Just Steriise using Boiled Hot Water (100C).
Tip: You can get an Old Jam Pan, add Medium, and lots of Water and heat it up on maybe an outside Fire/BBQ Kit/ a Portable Camp Stove etc. Allow it to "Cool totally well Covered" ! (You don't want Spores blown into that Sterile Stewed up Medium (!)
Or, if your very careful, do small amounts in a Microwave Lidded Container... (Not your best Food one !)
Again, do it until its reaches a Sterilising Temperature ! Tip Get a Jam Thermometer to repeatedly check that Temperature ! *You Must do it with added Water* otherwise dry material might start to smoulder and Burn 🔥 so watch it at all times.
I don't buy kits, just make my own Medium or similar, add it into a premade Growing Space. (Some go and buy Shop bought Mushrooms, collect the Spores off them, and make their own Growing Kit.) If you have the time and patience. Does take Months, but it's cheap, compared to the Kits. 😉
can you please post a video of the kits after all mushroom grown and how you made mushroom bucket grow again
You might want to check out our latest mushroom growing video where I show this: th-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZeFs3zO_NqSNUb7J
I just moved and my yard is nothing but clay. It's good for grass but not so much for plants. It took me years at my old house to turn the soil into good planting soil by composting. Now I must start all over here but coffee grounds definitely help for the compost. I dig a big hole and throw everything in it and mix with soil. I turn it as I add more and after a while it will be good dark planting soil. Anyway I may use my coffee grounds for mushrooms. My old house was surrounded by woods so I had an easy time finding mushrooms. Unfortunately now I only have just under an acre and I live on the outskirts or town in the burbs so it's a bit more difficult lol. I used to have bears and all kinds of critters getting into my composting pile which I'm worried will happen here and annoy my neighbors. My yard is completely fenced in so it might prevent that but it's just chain link so who knows. Anyway I may just try making mushrooms and settle with a small garden which is why I'm watching these videos. I did purchase a mushroom grow kit the other day and I figure after it's done I can just continue to grow them in buckets or something. I love my new house but miss my old yard lol.
It sounds like your old yard was awesome - having bears turn your compost for you is quite something! :-) Enjoy the mushroom growing - it's strangely satisfying.
Thank you very much for your explaination.
Hi Ben, great content!
Quick one, when you grow them in the bucket on your own without any kit what is the ratio between parts: coffee grounds, mushroom spawn and straw pellets pls?
Many thks in advance.
Hi João. I've only used the kits myself, so would be unsure of the exact ratios to use. The kit where I used straw pellets used just the pellets and no coffee grounds. I bought it from here: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
Great video Ben! Can you let some of the caps mature and use the spores to grow more mushrooms?
Yes, in theory you can do that. I've never done that, and you'd need to get the conditions right - but that is how mushrooms spread, so there's no reason you couldn't try that.
@@GrowVeg I'm going to give it a go!
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Is it possible to buy a kit and find a way to keep the spores going and harvest it continually, not just 2 or 3 harvests?
Check out the links in the video description for good suppliers of mushroom kits. Once the kits are done you can often spread the old growing medium (containing spores) on suitable material outdoors to keep harvests coming.
@@GrowVeg thank you for the reply. And thanks for your great garden planning app. It really helped me starting out!
Do you spray the mushrooms as they grow?
Yes, I mist the mushrooms regularly to keep them moist.
Ben is such a funghi, love his videos
Haha - thanks! :-)
That is so Amazing I am going to tell my son☺☺
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I guess there no mushroom in the box now 🥳🤣 Merry Xmas Dan and a Happy New Year to you and yours 😁🤣
I wonder if I can use pine wood pellets. We can get 40 lb bags here for $6.
Different fungi prefer different types of wood - usually hardwood, so I'm not sure about the suitability of pine wood pellets. But at that price it may be worth trying - that's a great price.
what size pack of grain spawn did you use with the bucket hay method?
This came as a kit, with everything you needed (except the bucket). This website gives a good indication as to the amount of spawn you might need: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/
Very informational video! I also love his energy and passion for mushrooms, thanks for the great video GrowVeg!
You're very welcome!
Soooo maybe after the 3r harvest could you let the mushrooms spore and make your own sort of kit and have 2 boxes going??
Yes indeed you could - you could spread the remaining mycelia/spores onto a suitable substrate to keep it going.
Planning to buy kit like that to grow our own mushrooms at home to.
If you let the third or forth harvest drop spores, could you get more mushrooms from that drop?
Thank you🍄
Yes, in theory you can let the spores drop on a suitable substrate and then they will colonise that. In much the same way as you would save your own seeds to sow elsewhere.
All you need to do is chop up one of your new mushrooms when mature, put it in a blender with water, and then mix that with your growing substrate. You can use just about anything for the substrate - cardboard (cut into small pieces), coffee grounds, straw or hay (cut to 3-4 inches), etc.
Just be sure to boil it for 30 minutes to sterilize it and decant the water prior to mixing in the mycelium. Also let it cool before mixing.
After the kit is finished do you re use the medium as mushroom compost?
The kit is mostly straw, so I just pop it onto the compost heap.
Can you do a video on puffball mushrooms.. they look so beautiful but can they be farmed?
I believe they can be grown with some difficulty. Here's a great article on them: grocycle.com/puffball-mushrooms-guide/
Will certainly consider this for a future video.
@@GrowVeg thank you
Hey I have a question. Is it normal for mushrooms to grow mold? I’ve noticed alot of stores sell oyster mushrooms have mold on them…
I've not really seen this myself, but I guess it's certainly a possibility.
I would like to grow the oyster mushrooms, may I ask where can I purchase the kit?
Here you go....
UK-based suppliers:
GroCycle: grocycle.com
Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
US-based suppliers:
North Spore: northspore.com/
Fungi Ally: www.fungially.com/
Do they need a loght to grow
The oyster mushrooms do need a little light, yes. Just dim light.
Did you say, “cook these for my tea” ? Please do explain. Love the channel, just discovered it!
As in the British English version of tea - i.e. dinner/evening meal! From memory I used them to make a mushroom stake - very delicious!
When you say straw what is it? Are they paper straws? Plastic straws? Are there any alternatives?
I mean straw from field crops - the dry stems of arable crops like wheat, barley etc.
I remember many years ago that local stables in E Sussex had their muck picked up to be used for mushroom farms in old railway tunnels. It was a good way to recycle waste, shame it is not used now.
That is a great use of old muck. :-)
Hahaha I loved the mushroom puns at the end 🙂 great video! I love mushrooms so I'll have to give this a try! I've also been silently enjoying your other videos, thanks for all the great content!
Thanks for watching Nicole. God luck with the mushrooms - they're so much fun to grow.
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From where can I buy the mushroom seeds?
Check out the stockists in the video description. Some of them do sell just the spores (seeds) on their own.
did these attract flies at all?
No, if the mushrooms are fresh and actively growing, they don't seem to attract flies.
After the first harvest of oyster mushrooms, could you put the block in a container of used coffee grounds and keep growing them that way?
Potentially, yes. Though I have never tried this.
We have a patch of woodland on our property - just walk down to the end of the lawn and straight into the woods. Can the Mushroom kit be mixed as shown and sprinkled on to the dead trees in the woods? Will the 'shrooms grow, and when is the best time to sow the spores? thank you
Yes, once the kit is done, you can break it up to spread the remains outside onto a suitable growing medium. The makers of the first kit suggest wood chips. I guess the best time of year to do this might be anytime during the growing season, but I imagine it would be fine in a mild winter too.
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So if you allow the spores to drop you'll be able to grow even more
Yes, you could use that to your advantage.
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When the harvest starts to dwindle ... spread remaining substrate on the north side of the fence😉😉
Do you use normal tap water to soak and spray or distilled water ?
I just use tap water.
Great for kids, as see change day by day.
I have a question: Can you use rotting wood or soil?
You can use recently cut wood, yes. Different types of wood are preferred by different mushrooms. The mushrooms are breaking things down, so soil on its own isn't usually suitable - they need a nutrient-rich substrate to feed off (like wood, straw, etc).
in the end, so can you just cut open a section of the package that you didn't open before and expect a crop from that new spot?
The kit used in the second part of the video was very specific - it had a section that you had to cut open. Once you've harvested the kit and soaked it again, new mushrooms will sprout from the same area.
@@GrowVeg I'm asking as I tried that with a lions mane grow kit a few months ago and I was greatly disappointed. The crop I got was pretty bad. I had to ask the seller if I should be celebrating or cry for the whole thing was a huge disappointment. And I know that I dont have a BLACK thumb
I'm definitely growing these.
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Ben tried growing mushrooms , don't know if my house is to cold but only got 2 mushrooms. It took 5 weeks to even get any mycelium, saw a few tiny mushrooms them nothing
Sorry to hear that. The kits I used grew really strongly. Perhaps your house is too cold? They grow well at normal room temperature.
You really outdid yourself here. Great fun and good advice! I have jaw trouble and can't eat oyster mushrooms easily, but I've considered growing winecaps.
Thanks so much for those kind words. I'm sure wine caps would definitely be worth growing too. Enjoy!
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Great video my friend thank you.
Cheers matey.