Mushrooms

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Growing Mushrooms in Winter Outdoors

January 1, 2012

It’s a little late to start growing mushrooms outdoors at this time of the year, but it can be done on beds of straw or wood chips if you start the process in the fall. You can also grow mushrooms such as shiitake and oyster types on logs which have been impregnated with mushroom spores [...]

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Cultivated Mushrooms — The Baby Steps of Mycelium

July 22, 2011

As you know we’ve covered the equipment and places to successfully produce mushroom. Now we’ll have a look at the production process itself which is very unusual as mushrooms aren’t plants.
First, before bringing in the compost, you’ll have to apply biocides to the rooms you’ll be growing mushrooms in because mycelium is very vulnerable to [...]

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Cultivated Mushrooms — Where Should They Be Grown?

July 16, 2011

White mushrooms, table mushrooms and button mushrooms, these delicacies have many names among the customers for they are very popular indeed. If you want to grow your own mushrooms there are several choices you might consider if you’re asking the question “where?”.
Mushroom production is usually done in caverns, refrigerated warehouses, light-proof greenhouses, tunnels, storehouses, cellars [...]

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Cultivated Mushrooms — Tools of the Trade

July 9, 2011

We’ve already chosen the location of our brand new white mushroom business, so now let’s find the necessary equipment to make it all come together.
First, we’re going to need some shelves in our mushroom production room. They should be made of iron rather than wood so that the moisture will not compromise them. If we run the first shelf so that [...]

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How to Grow Button Mushrooms at Your Own Home at Easy

July 4, 2011

It is very shocking to think about the considerable number of people who think that process of growing button mushrooms is a hectic task. In reality growing button mushrooms can be a very simple activity. Clear idea about the various techniques and methods that has to be employed to establish the highest quality button mushrooms, [...]

Magic mushrooms – Special Veggie

May 27, 2010

All veggies are magical in nature. They form foods for us and moreover give us lots of what we need without expecting anything from us. But among these are many peculiar things, which attract people. The color shape and size usually make the people have a look at it. The normal ones are ignored easily [...]

Oyster Mushroom Helps to Maintain Good Health

May 27, 2010

It is very important to all of us to maintain good health to lead a healthy life. We can do this in many ways. One of which is to take care of the diet that you are taking. The diet, which you are taking, should contain all the essential vitamins and should be able to [...]