Do it yourself mushrooms at home and in the garden

Growing poplar mushrooms 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 ...

STEW WITH BEER AND MUSHROOMS

Melt the broth cube in 1/4 liter of water and keep it aside Peel the onions and chop them into rounded pieces. Then let them saute with butter and oil. Add the meat and when it starts browning ( after 5 minutes ), sprinkle with paprika and flour. Pour beer and broth over that, add some herbs and cover. Let it simmer for about 40 minutes, until it is tender and cooked. Add the washed mushrooms, which you have previously sliced. When the stew is well-cooked, sprinkle with ...

Mushroom cultivation some recommendations for Beginners

INTRODUCTION In mushroom cultivation it is important to distinguish two different stages: the preparation of substrates and the actual production of mushrooms. The firms that carry out both these working stages are the so-called “closed loop mushroom farms”; they are normally quite wide and involve dozens, even hundreds of employees. The preparation of the substrate is based on a very sophisticated and expensive system. In order to pay off production costs, such system ...

Giuseppe Lanzi