While some types of mushrooms cannot be bred and propagated systematically to this day, other types of edible mushrooms such as button mushrooms and oyster mushrooms also offer beginners rapid cultivation success.

Which varieties are suitable for growing in the garden and cellar?

The most important thing for growing mushrooms in your own garden or cellar is a place that offers the respective mushroom variety suitable conditions for its growth. Suitable varieties for growing at home include:

  • Brown mushrooms
  • White mushrooms
  • shiitake
  • King Oyster Mushroom
  • Brown Caps
  • lime mushroom

While the lime mushroom is usually cultivated on a piece of wood or a tree trunk, button mushrooms find their ideal home on sodden straw bales or on coconut substrate.

What do you need to grow mushrooms?

In addition to the right place with an even microclimate and temperatures of around 15 to 20 degrees Celsius, you also need a suitable cultivation substrate and the spores for inoculating the material for mushroom cultivation. You can buy ready-made growing kits from specialist retailers in which the substrate has already been inoculated with fungal spores and only needs to be watered. However, you can also purchase rod-shaped spores, from which the mycelium can spread through the straw bale or the coconut substrate.

Do mushrooms need light to grow?

In principle, fungi do not carry out photosynthesis, but obtain some of their energy for growth as mycorrhizal fungi from a symbiosis with different tree and plant species. Thus, the fruiting bodies of the mushrooms develop independently of the light radiation, however, the sunlight as heat supply can promote the growth of the mushrooms. Mushrooms can be grown just as well in a light greenhouse, although a dark basement offers better conditions for growing mushrooms due to the more even temperature and humidity levels.

tips and tricks

As a rule, fungi can only be settled in a desired location with suitable spore sets in the form of vaccination sticks. However, with a bit of luck you can also be successful if you mix leftover unwashed and uncooked edible mushrooms with the soil in a shady and damp place in the garden. Under the right conditions, the adhering fungal spores can cause the fungi to multiply.

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Vegetable garden