3 Ways YOU Can Grow Mushrooms In The Garden
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I love the idea of growing mushrooms at home especially when it comes to delicious cultivars like Wine Cap mushrooms that you can't find in the store! Today I will show you how to build a standard mushroom bed on the ground, how to grow mushrooms in your pathways, and how to make a container mushroom factory! I have used North Spore over the years for both outdoor and indoor grow kits without fail!
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I bought spent mushroom blocks from a vendor at the farmers market to use as a soil amendment.... Unexpectedly found pink ousters and lions mane all over the garden!
Yup! Spent blocks actually still have plenty of mycelium in them but they have run out of food so spreading them out int he garden gives them something to eat!
I would be so happy 😅
What kind of mulch did the lions mane pop up in? They’re my favourite, and I want to make sure I set them up properly if I end up going for it.
@@HowWereLivingGardeningChannel mostly its own substrate if I remember right.
Dropping by to snag a few ;)
MAYBE I will let you know when they are ready
Tips for doing this in other zones:
-In the desert oysters might be easier since they like the warm but for most cooler places (ive tried in zones 5-7) wine caps are way easier and they’ll be perennial.
-Wine caps like wood chips more than straw and it usually takes 6months-1year before they colonize and break down wood enough to fruit but then they’ll never leave and they’ll spread.
-Blue oysters specifically are the best tasting mushroom i’ve ever had. They’re like bacon. But wine caps are good too, closer to a regular button mushroom from the store.
-Oysters do prefer straw and because my climate is cooler I haven’t gotten them to be perennial. They will grow fast though and usually fruit in a few weeks that same season if you plant them at the right time early enough. I consider them annual near me.
-If you’re not in a desert, make sure the chips don’t dry out for a week or so and then the mushrooms will get all the water they need from rain. Straw beds might require a bit more maintenance and babying.
-Wine caps usually fruit in the spring and the fall for me and they don’t fruit the first season and sometimes not even really abundantly until the third spring/fall but you can check for mycelium to make sure it’s alive at any point.
-I add a thin layer of new wood chips every year to keep them going indefinitely but my old landlord tried to completely cover mine with rocks and weed fabric and they still came out with nice fruit around the edges, so once established they’re pretty hardy as long as the mycelium stays intact.
These are really great tips, thanks for sharing with others!
I can confirm you can grow mushrooms in a grow bag. They send fruiting bodies throughout the sides of the bag. They grew in a poly tunnel at 70% humidity
That is awesome!
But thats plastic
I had wood blewits show up on their own in my autumn leaf compost two years ago. The following year I planted wine caps in my Chip Drop woodchips, and I had elegant stinkhorns show up on their own due to the favorable conditions I created. This year the elegant stinkhorns have spread all throughout my garden, along with the squid stinkhorns making an appearance. All stinkhorn species are safe to eat, and they make a great thickener for soups and sauces.
I'm in northern NM. Do you think blewits would get enough cold days, if I started them in the Spring?
@@Neenerella333 I'm not sure what climate zone that would be, though it looks like New Mexico ranges from 4-9. Crops that require a cold period tend to do best in anything up to zone 7. It should work if you get cold winters.
Wow that is awesome! I haven't seen those before and would find it to be quite the site to come out and see all my mulch with these guys popping up everywhere! Do they taste any good or is it more of practical use for thickening?
@@jacquesinthegarden Learn Your Land did one of the only videos I've found on how to prepare stinkhorn eggs, using the common stinkhorn _P. impudicus_ which is larger and tastes more like radishes. The elegant stinkhorn tastes earthy, and takes on the flavors of whatever seasonings you add. Apparently stinkhorns are only commonly eaten in Chinese cuisine, and are not widely considered edible due to their off-putting smell, though none of them are toxic. The bridal veil is one of the few that is cultivated for medicinal use.
Wow, that's so cool and great to know they're edible!
I love the explanation of how to layer to aid in feeding the mushrooms throughout their life cycle.
I made 2 burlap bags of mushroom this year : blue and pink oysters. I had great harvests, I was almost tired of eating mushrooms 😅 I mixed 50/50 straw and maple mulch. I placed the bags under my patio for shade and also use this otherwise lost space 😊
That sounds awesome and also an awesome use of space!
Hey! I really want to grow mushrooms in my garden (Southern California) and am having a hard time finding straw. May I ask where you get your straw supply?
Maine here! 🌲 We have used North Spore a bunch and have been so happy with every product! They are a wonderful company. We love the box grow kits for holiday gifts.
They are a great company for sure!
I have a wine cap kit in my fridge that I literally just told my husband we need a plan for putting out. We’re also amending our beds and putting our garden to rest for the winter and we have a pile of mulch to put down. This is perfect timing. Much appreciated!
I love mushroom farming! And gardening of course :-) thanks for all the tips and so forth. I did the wine caps also and they are great😊 they're everywhere!
So tasty and easy!
I heard that king of the garden was a fun mushroom to grow but I’m definitely going to plant some in my pathways!
It's so much fun and honestly one of the best mushrooms I've had!
Great video, I definitely want to try this. The grow bag you used seems like it can now be a "spawn bag" and used to inoculate other mushroom beds or bags, once the grow bag is fully colonized.
Just a thought, never tried it.
100% it is basically a spawn factory now I can spread my mushrooms all around!
I’m looking forward to a follow up video to see an update. I just watched this video again because I just planted some mushrooms today. Thank you. 😊
THIS is the how-to I didn't know I needed!
I did a very half-assed sowing of wine cap spawn mid-summer and still got very decent results that are still producing flushes now! It very much seems like my best flushes and best tomato producers were in the same containers, so either they liked the same conditions or were cooperating. 🍄🍄🍄
This is awesome to hear, they just want to grow!
Great video Jacques... I'm inspired to add some mushrooms to my garden now. I never really considered the added benefits of mushroom gardening, aside from the mushroom itself. Even without the edible, sounds like they're hugely beneficial for the overall garden ecosystem.
There are! Some strains like wine caps even kill/eat nematodes and form symbiotic relationships with plants. Protecting roots and providing water & enzymes in exchange for plant sugar.
@@brentsims9114 - Appreciate the extra detail Brent...
Question for you and/or Jacques - Any thoughts on growing mushrooms under a persimmon tree or other fruit tree for that matter? Younger trees (3-4 years old), so not that big, but ground beneath still shaded for much of the day. Area already mulched with Garden Straw and getting ready to add a layer with winter coming, so if I'm going to do it, this would be the time. Thx!
I tried mushrooms but only got one harvest. I think it was too hot here in Dan Diego. What temp can the ones you planted tolerate?
They are really wonderful to have in the garden for a variety of reasons! Under a tree is actually quite ideal for growing the mushrooms since it provides shade. They will also breakdown all the mulch and return the nutrients back to your soil and feed for orchard!
@@jacquesinthegarden- Thank you Jacques…
This was so interesting! I’ve seen mushroom kits to grow on oak logs but never considered growing them in my garden pathways. Thank you, Jacque!
Do Mushrooms ever fight each other? Do they just need Soil and Water and nothing else, like i heard?
They do fight each other in the sense that one will outcompete the other. So that is why you usually start with sterile or new media to grow on
Apparently you and Kevin are influencing me through subtle product placement, I recently upgraded all of my tools in my garden, a gorilla cart, two hose link hoses and lots of wands and extra connectors, new wheelbarrow wheel, hoselink hand tools, birdies garden beds! I just planted some seedlings and the cells I’m using are breaking down so I’m going to need to get 4 and 6 cells from Epic store so they last! Loving the quality of everything I’ve purchased! Thanks guys
I love how you said the fir is like protein and fats! Made perfect sense to me. Takes longer to colonize, but makes for a healthier/longer harvest overall
North spore has some great informative videos. They seem to be the most consistent in quality for spawn. I’m glad to see them recommended
I imagine it would be a lot easier to do this in the Pacific northwest. Fall is mushroom season up here, and already I have a lot of tiny fruiting mushrooms in my lawn (no clue what they are, if they are edible or not etc)
I think it'd be fun to grow these, thanks so much for the tips n tricks.
For sure should be perfect to do in the PNW, the cooler weather and higher rainfall is ideal!
I loved this video, thank you for sharing your wealth of garden knowledge ❤. I’m saving this one and will watch it numerous times as I am hoping to grow mushrooms this summer. I’ll let you know next year if I had success 🇨🇦
Best of luck! It's one of the most fun harvests to witness!
I'm still too scared to mess around with mushrooms until I can positively identify them! Here in MA, we get tons of mushrooms around this time of the year and they look great, but I've heard that the difference between the ones you can eat and the ones that can make you sick are subtle. I would have to make sure any variety I grew was isolated from the ground, because even my garden paths have tons of mushrooms! I can't think of a part of the garden that doesn't get mushrooms when it's wet! We have winecaps that grow naturally here!
That is cool that you get so many passively! With wine caps they are actually super unique and identifiable. There are a few distinct features that no other mushroom has all in one. But having so many different mushrooms naturally present in your area I totally get being worried about it!
@@jacquesinthegarden I know there's two super dangerous ones here, Death Angel and Jack O Lantern. There's way more that are edible, but if you did pick the wrong one, it's bad news. Supposedly Death Angel is pretty distinctive, but there is another species of Amanita that is quite good! I might get into it a little more since I watched this video! I think I'll start inside this winter.
@@christophergetchell6490 It's a lot lower stakes to get into identifying them and don't even worry about eating them. Get confident and before you know it the differences will get more obvious. And nothing like growing your own to really understand something, even if it in indoors.
Thanks Jacques! I am excited to try mushrooms in a grow bag. I have lots of mushrooms all over the meadow that I can not identify, so restricting them to a garden bag is super appealing!
That is a great way to think of it, isolation from the native mushrooms! Also, thanks for the letter! Looking forward to the irrigation experiments!
@@jacquesinthegarden Indeed. You are welcome. I have been plotting and planning irrigation in my spare time this week. I have a whole new appreciation for what this takes as a first timer.
The wine cap mushrooms I grew in my straw mulch in the squash bed this year! They’re so easy to grow and they break down the straw to add nutrients to the soil for next year’s garden as well! Next year I’m gonna try growing mushrooms in a log my friend gave to me as well. We’ll see how it goes!
I would love to add a a mushroom log grow sometime soon!
Great video, I’ve always wanted to try them. So I ordered some. Thank you!
So cool! I liked the progress report within one video.
If you want to see the harvest and cook of the wine caps here is another update! th-cam.com/video/ppAf-egBINw/w-d-xo.html
Fascinating video, Jacques. I really never thought about growing mushrooms in my garden. Definitely am considering this. Thanks for showing me how.
This was neat! Can't wait to see the updates!
Great video, Jacques! Next time try the unlined grow bag and a denser medium to regulate moisture. They will spread to the outer surface of the bag and fruit all along the sides.
I really want to try putting mushrooms in my garden. I’ve only ever grown them once in a bucket. I thought the mushrooms weren’t producing, forgot about it for a while, and then when I checked on it there was a huge chunk of lions mane growing 👍 I’ve always found the mushroom growing kits to be too expensive to be worthwhile, but if I can get continuous seasons of mushrooms like this it would definitely be a worthwhile investment.
Jacques : you're a great presenter. And video is packed with useful info : no fluff : just how i like it. THanks!!! from South africa
I appreciate it!
Jacques, I've been eagerly awaiting this video!!!!! I was hoping to see the results but I can’t wait to see an update video on these wine caps, blewits, and oyster mushrooms in your garden 🥰 😍🍄 I'm thinking about giving this a shot. Have you had success with growing north spores lion's mane mushrooms as well? I'm eager to diversify my garden with some mushrooms! Hopefully it’ll be much easier, I’m in 9b and have failed growing melons & corn twice already, I could use a break here 😅
I haven't tried lion mane outside but I have had plenty of awesome harvest from countertop kits! If you want an easy win go with oyster mushrooms, almost guaranteed to fruit!
I'm very interested in seeing the spring update. Never grown mushrooms, but I sure think they are neat and tasty 😊
Happy to report that they fruited! th-cam.com/video/ppAf-egBINw/w-d-xo.html
I think holes in the sides of the bag will be helpful:) can't wait to see the update!
Love mushrooms, thanks for the great video!
Love ya program ! Good luck !
wow. i need to try this now... always more to do
Great content!
Please put the link in the description if you make a follow-up video when you harvest them later.
I work at North Spore and we love the garden hermit 🥰🥰🥰 love seeing this video ❤
Haha that is awesome! Love to hear this!
Was just thinking about growing mushrooms!
I actually do enjoy putting mushrooms on the top layer of the compost bin
I have a multitude of native mushrooms around the garden, of which I collect mycelium and mushroom caps of and put them in the compost bin and also among oakleaf mulch. They help break down everything quit quickly and add a lot of beautiful fall vibe to the garden. I do wanna expand it to using edible native mushrooms soon though. Porcini mushrooms for example :)
To add to this, be sure your wood chips are not DYED. Unfortunately much bagged mulch is, in order to maintain aesthetic consistency.
I'm excited for the check ups! I love mushrooms and we're considering growing them. Maitake is my favorite kind to eat but I hear they're difficult to grow.
YEAAAAAAHS I’ve been wanting a North Spore x Epic crossover for YEARS!!!!
Might be more coming!
Love the pathways idea - gonna ask Santa for some spawn for Christmas ;)
If only I had a wetter climate I would for sure prioritize mushroom pathways!
Que bueno iniciativa, para cultivo del campo
Que bonito que es ese paiaaje lleno de plantas
I've never thought to grow mushrooms since I'm the only one that will eat them....very interesting . The website uses a clothes hamper as an additional growing platform. Interesting.
There are so many ways to grow them it is actually wild!
How about using sawdust? My friend has mountains of it from his woodworking.....all kinds of softwood. BUT I'll have to ask him to skip the walnut. Also, I gather composted wood from rotten dead fall in our big woods. It's black and crumbly. Seems like a no brainer? However, out in the woods I see the mushrooms on the fallen tree's bark, not in the rotted wood itself. What are your thoughts about this? I'm in Zone 5a, NE US. You've greatly inspire me to try a shroom bed behind the house....there's a huge spruce and a silver maple back there, good shade but facing south. The spot gets lots of ambient light but not direct sunlight. The water source is right there, too. I think I need to have a convo with North Spore, too!
Inspiring!
Thanks so much! Can you show/tell us when to spread the used material on our gardens? I have a 2 year old wine caps bed along the side of a shed. I didn’t think I could spread it elsewhere without ruining the original spawn site. Thanks!! 🐓🌸🍄
You can totally just take out a chunk of your current bed and move it elsewhere. When you do add plenty of fresh much to the old bed and the new one as well to give it something to eat through. Fall and spring should be good times to do it!
@@jacquesinthegarden Thank you! They haven’t fruited yet on this year’s wood chips ( last year they fruited in September). So should I wait until they fruit or go for it? Again, thanks!
Hmm you could probably take a bit and it may even trigger a fruiting. I can't say for sure though! I wouldn't take more than like an eight of it at this stage.
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Excelente video
I love mushrooms there so cool
I will have to try growing mushrooms next year since our frost is already here.
Yeah I feel like frost might make it a challenging time to establish!
I love this video! Watched it three times lol. How are the mushrooms doing this spring? Also, I have heard mixed reviews about growing wine caps with pepper plants. Have you grown wine caps or oysters with Pepper plants before?
Hermoso Jardín
Looks interesting and a lot of fun I'm hoping you can grow lots of mushrooms I wish you luck
Here is the massive harvest I had just a few months later th-cam.com/video/ppAf-egBINw/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant!!! 💡mind
WhoooHooooo!!!
IT'S MUSHROOM SEASON!!!
We would love an update on the chicken orchard!!
I actually have plans for that!
Excelente explicación
I’m in the PNE and excited to try some of these! But please give me some tips on keeping slugs out of the mix. Tried straw bales for oyster mushrooms a few years back and the slugs ate way more than I did.
Sluggo scattered around the edges might not be a bad idea. Its organic certified and if I recall its just Iron Phosphate so it shouldn't add anything dangerous to the mix (for sure double check though). The only other option is to include some copper around it? That apparently keeps them out but it sound expensive!
sweet i want to grow mushrooms now
So excited, mushrooms are one of my favorite things to eat and I'd love to learn how to grow them. For the blewit mushroom, do you constantly have to keep it moist throughout its whole cold period?
In the pacific northwest where I've found them wild, yes its a rainy season November\December find. Hard freezes in January tend to wipe them out for a while
For all mushroom beds you want to keep them damp but not wet. It should feel moist to the touch but not be wet to the point that you can squeeze water out of. Just don't let them fully dry out!
Looks fun! I've been wanting to try this so I'll have to figure out a good spot in my garden & order some! Hey, quick question - what's that orange flowering vine behind you at around 7:00 minutes into your video? It's beautiful!
It is an orange clock vine! Flowers year round here!
@@jacquesinthegarden awsome, thanks! I'm in a 9b zone (sacramento area) so I'll have to give those a try.. :)
Hey great video! I’m in San Diego as well, wondering where you got the wood chips and straw? Not sure where to get large amount of it for cheap, let me know if you see this, thanks!
I love that you covered this topic. I just started growing mushrooms and I’m still learning.
By growing mushrooms in the straw mulch in my raised bed…wouldn’t that expose them to light? I thought they needed a shady area.
They'll find the shadier spots under the plants or around the edges. Most won't flush until the conditions are right either (high humidity, temperature varies).
It is a balance but as someone else said if they have plants overhead consistently they will find the time to fruit as long as they have deep enough mulch to thrive.
Great video! I thought we needed to pasteurize the straw
For ultimate guarantee that you get the mushroom you want/expect that is the way. This is especially important for indoor growing as you don't want to contaminate all your other spawns and grows but outdoors you can't control for it anyway!
I don't want to necessarily do a whole mushroom raised bed, but can I do it as a "cover crop" until I'm ready to plant next spring? I plan to put the bed to sleep with fallen leaves and straw.
Okay, I really want to do this! Now I need to research how to make it work 15 miles east of you where it is warmer and drier, hotter and colder.
Just put it in a fully shady spot and that's it. You should be 100% fine!
Hey Jacques and all. What's your recommendation for putting garden/yard mushrooms in a compost pile? We have several different kinds popping up in our lawn and mulch as we have had a bit more rain overall in NE Indiana. Thanks.
They can but there is always a chance that they spread in your pile and then spread in your garden.
going to try this with oysters and shitake
I don’t know about all that moisture next to the wall Jacques….but I love the video as always!
I did have some concern about it, but it is also set in hard clay soil that retains moisture for months once wet. For sure a valid concern!
Can these be grown in zone 7b where we get freeze & snow? Love this, love mushrooms, thanks Jacques, loved the video!
Totally! There might be some other strategy like starting in spring and late summer/fall. North Spore is based in Maine and they film a lot of their content out there.
Awesome video! I think I will give this a try. Encouraging mushrooms as a composting solution/assistant sounds like a great idea for my simple composting schema. I live in a post-war apartment building (so no balcony) so I am trying different composting techniques; so far bokashi isn't working too well for me. So I am keeping it simple and have two large planting pots with an old questionable bag of soil my mom bought and dumping scraps in there to start the process of correcting that soil. So a couple of questions. First, after your rainy season (your "winter" right?), for your particular climate is it possible to maintain it into the Spring and Summer? If so, how would you go about it? Is watering and shading enough or do you have to inoculate it again? Second, do you I am also aware of log inoculation. Is that something you plan to try out in the future? Last, what books would you recommend on the topic or on gardening in general? I have been raiding Chelsey Green Publishing, but looking for more non-internet resources (break from screen).
Our rainy season is essentially November to March with a slim chance of April showers. Spring is maintainable for the mushrooms without much challenge but summer can be tricky. The key is to pile mulch extra high and make sure its in a shaded area. I would love to try inoculating logs, the main challenge here is the lack of good fresh wood. For other garden books I really love a lot of Chelsey Green books! The Living Soil handbook is great, The No-Till Organic vegetable farm is great, and Elliot Coleman has a bunch of great books! I haven't reach much this year but I have a few queued up. The one I am most excited for is "Fruit Trees for Every Garden" By Orin Martin!
Hey Jacques, I live in Central FL (zone 9b/10a), is it feasible to grow mushrooms outdoors here? If so, what type are recommended? I saw that most of them prefer cooler temps and we don't get much of that here. I love mushrooms and would love to grow them!
So there is basically one that I can think of but it is one you have to responsible with. The pink oyster mushrooms are tropical in nature but they can be invasive so they should do well there but yo have to be responsible.
Ahí está el secreto para tener fuertes plantas 🤩
Jacques where do you get all of your wood chips?
Good 😊
Just did an order and used your code! First time growing mushrooms and going with fruiting blocks to start with. I think our low temperatures coming up would kill off an attempt at wine caps outside. Do you think keeping them in a greenhouse protected in a grow bag with proper humidity could yield a winter harvest? Or just wait until spring? In KY (7a)
I just watched this video and quickly ordered Blue Oyster Mushroom Sawdust Spawn from North Pore, Redwood Chip Mulch are a giant bag of straw. I am ready to go. Then I wondered if it's too cold for the mushrooms. I am at 7b, New York City...?
Shout out to your local mycological society! Wherever you are (in the US) there is definitely a local chapter of the North American Mycological Society.
Two great things to add to your mushroom garden as you're mixing ingredients are gypsum and some sort of seed hull. A seed hull could be something like pecan shells or soybean hulls, any woody material that hosts seeds. These are really helpful components in providing nutrition to the fungus as it grows out your mushrooms for you.
Mushrooms need humidity! They get their water from the substrate that absorbs ambient humidity.
Mushrooms (wood loving) need light! about as much hits the ground under a tree.
Mushrooms need airflow! They intake oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide so they need fresh oxygen coming via spaces with good airflow.
Happy growing,
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Información detallada, gracias
I put in wine caps last spring in the pathways and used 2 by 2 oak stakes for my tomatoes, I just pulled the tomatoes out and was shocked that most of my stakes had been completely digested and only the wood above the ground leve remained everything under the soil was consumed and fell off when I pulled the stakes out
Woah that is really cool!
The sound of the knife in the cardboard hurt my soul
Great video… the persistent herbicide issues with even organic straw have me way too squeamish to introduce straw to my garden system 😢 Could I use chopped leaves?
Is it ever worth it monetarily to do a grow bag? 30$ for a kit is kinda expensive. How many pounds of mushroom would you average per bag?
I think at that point you could go buy a countertop kit and just run it that way. With 1 kit you could innoculate at least 3-4 bags like this and then you can have the straw that's inoculated that you can spread once again. But basically if you want a single grow just go ahead and do a countertop kit, the oyster mushrooms can respawn out a block 2-3 times without any special setups!
If you keep adding fresh substrate every year, the mushrooms should continue to come back year after year. You can consider them to be like perennial crops. They are a long term investment.
@@jacquesinthegarden You can effectively grow mushrooms year after year by applying straw/mulch to the patch after the end of the fruiting seasons.
When you harvest the mushrooms you can take the very bottom of the mushroom that has the mycorrhizal strands and move those to a new area using the processes above.
Alternatively you can set aside some of the pre-bought spawn, get some wood dowels (used for joinery) and add the dowels to the spawn bag. The spawn will inoculate the dowels then you can use the dowels to insert into logs such as oak and maple or any other suitable wood species.
This will guarantee you YEARS of mushrooms.
100% I am more thinking a long the lines of space limited people who may consider making a single container. But you certainly could keep that same container going forever if managed right!
😂😂 bruh it's 30 dollars stop crying
Neat
Will mushrooms keep producing year after year? I plan on doing this in marginal area of my yard and would like to harvest mushrooms.
So I have some spawn I never used last year, I know big waste of money… should I just compost it?
I always thought you have to grow mushrooms in the shade. Is it different with each variety?
I live in western oregon, just north of the California border. Once it starts raining, I see many many mushrooms. Can I start this now?
100% you can start it now! Great time to get them established
Curious about if I can grow mushrooms in a subtropical environment. Where I live can get up to 42 centigrade during summer. About 15 centigrade during winter.
Pink oyster mushrooms are the ones that come to mind! They actually cannot tolerate cold and love tropical heat. They can be invasive if allowed out in the wild though!
Thank you, will look them up! Perhaps the grow bag for them if they’re super invasive.
Jacque I have a question. I see those same threads under my wood chips near my palm tree but have never inoculated that part of my garden. My question is, is all mycelium healthy to see? Is that a good sign of microbial and fungal growth in the soil? TIA and love your videos!
I’m not Jacques, but the answer is yes! Mycelium break down your mulch, allowing your palm tree to gain access to those nutrients! Fungal activity is an important part of any ecosystem, and will plant itself(through spores carried in the wind) and grow as long as the conditions are good (moist, no fungicides present, etc.) Just don’t eat anything if you don’t know 100% what it is.
Thanks for the reply. My edible garden starts right next to the palm tree in the corner covered in wood chips. Its separated by a small barrier then the whole back fence line is all edible plants. Should I be worried? @@misstweetypie1
OH yeah, its totally good! Its just a sign that some mushroom species is colonizing your mulch. This in theory could form partnerships with your plants and help keep them watered and bring nutrients to them! It will also breakdown the mulch feed the soil!
@@wildkev1010 don’t be worried, be happy! You have a healthy garden.
Can you seed it once and maintain it over years?
Should I be boiling the straw and wood chips first