Mushrooms are a great source of vitamins and minerals such as iron, vitamins D, and B, as well as many other vitamins.Purchasing mushrooms can weigh on your budget and harvesting wild mushrooms often proves to be hazardous.If you want to save money and have peace of mind, you can grow organic mushrooms that offer you all the benefits of mushrooms without the risks.
Step 1: Purchase organic mushrooms.
Mushroom spawn can be used to grow mushrooms.The log method calls for you to spawn in the plug form, which is contained inside short wooden dowels.Mushroom spawn can be purchased at many garden stores.If you want to grow organic mushrooms, you should shop at online shops that specialize in mushroom spawn.
Step 2: There is a good log.
The wood should be from a hardwood tree.If you're cutting a branch or log from your own tree, make the cut in the late fall or early spring to get the best weather.The logs should be at least 3 to 5 feet long.You can buy logs from home improvement stores if you don't have trees on your property.
Step 3: I don't have to give the logs a vaccine within two weeks.
The wood rot is caused by the longer you wait to use your logs.It is possible that logs that have rested for too long can grow inedible mushrooms.
Step 4: There are holes in the logs.
You should use a 5/16 inch drill bit if you want to make a lot of plugs.
Step 5: There are holes in a diamond.
At the top and bottom of the logs, keep a margin of 2 inches.The sides of the diamonds should be about 2.5 cm apart and the top and bottom of them should not be more than 6 and 8 inches apart.If you have plugs for them, make as many diamonds as you can fit.
Step 6: Plugs should be put into the holes.
The package should have instructions, but you need to fit the plugs into the holes.
Step 7: Take care of the holes.
In a double boiler, heat organic beeswax.Spread wax over the top of each plug after removing the wax from the heat.
Step 8: The logs need to be stored.
A location that gets partial sun and partial shade will be a good place to store your logs.The logs should be kept against one another or against an object.
Step 9: Constantly, check it.
The mushrooms can take up to 16 months to grow.
Step 10: Harvest quickly.
You only have a week to harvest mushrooms before they go bad.You can either cut the mushroom at the point where the stem meets the log, or you can twist and pull it up.
Step 11: Spur activity after the first harvest.
Allow a log to slam on the ground.Doing this will encourage further growth in logs that have already produced mushrooms in the past.
Step 12: Coffee grounds are to be collected.
Coffee beans can be used to grow organic mushrooms.You can keep the coffee grounds fresh and free of mold by storing them in a sealed plastic container in the freezer.The grounds should be left in a room temperature for 24 hours.If you don't drink enough coffee to collect the grounds, go to a coffee shop that sells organic coffee and ask if they would be willing to sell you the coffee grounds.
Step 13: The grounds should be deposited into a plastic bucket.
About half of the bucket should be filled.
Step 14: Make the coffee grounds moist.
Dry grounds won't work well.Add a small amount of water to the grounds to make them moist.
Step 15: There is a way to get mushroom spawn.
The spawn that comes in the form of sawdust mix works better than the plugs.You can find it at garden supply stores or online specialty shops.
Step 16: The coffee grounds should have the spawn.
If you want to break it up, you can sprinkle it over the grounds.
Step 17: The grounds should be mixed with the spawn.
Use your hands to stir the mix into the coffee grounds.Use your hands to pat the surface.
Step 18: The bucket should be filled with grounds and spawned.
There should be about 1 inch of empty space between the bucket and the mixture's surface.If you don't have enough grounds to fill the bucket, you can drill a few holes into the side of it.
Step 19: Wrap the bucket around.
The mixture is kept moist by the plastic wrap.The build up of carbon dioxide can be prevented by poking several hold in the wrap.
Step 20: Water the top of the grounds.
The grounds should be misted.You can spray the mushrooms through the holes in the plastic wrap, or you can remove the wrap and replace it when you are done.
Step 21: Coffee grounds can be monitored.
Within a couple of weeks, mushrooms should start to grow.
Step 22: Pick up the mushrooms.
You only have a week to harvest fully mature mushrooms.Pick them up by hand at the point where they come out from the surface.