Do it yourself mushrooms at home and in the garden

Growing Shii-take with Spawn Plugs

Spawn plugs are wooden pegs containing a cultivation of mushroom spawn. To grow the mushrooms, freshly cut logs of healthy poplar wood, willow or other deciduous trees are used. The growing technique is very simple, all you need to do is drill holes in each log and insert the spawn plugs using a ...

PIE WITH RIGATONCINI AND MUSHROOMS

Boil pasta in copious salty water. Mince onion thinly, let it saute in 60 gr. butter and add mushrooms then, cleaned and cut into thin slices. Let them brown, wet them with 3 spoons wine, add salt, pepper and let them cook for 10 minutes. In a small bowl, dilute 2 spoons flour with half a glass of milk. Add the beaten, salted and peppery eggs and add half a spoon yeast and a spoon minced parsley. Dress pasta with this mushroom sauce. Put it in a well-buttered oven-proof dish, cover with ...

May I cultivate boletus?

This is one of the most common FAQs: may I cultivate boletus? As we reply in the negative, people normally react skeptically. For this reason, they subsequently wonder why other types of mushrooms can be cultivated while boletus not. Although we won't face the problem from a scientific point of view, it is necessary to make a premise. First of all, it is important to clarify that the so called “edible mushrooms” ( mushrooms we can eat ) are macroscopic mushrooms; it means ...

Giuseppe Lanzi