I have grown king stropharia and oyster mushrooms in the past. Stropharia work pretty well you simply make a 4x4 ft square for them with cinder blocks, they will eat wood. Make sure the square is in a shady area and add your mycelium and sanitized substrate. Regularly water the patch along with your lawn and in a few months they start popping up like crazy. They have kind of a potato flavor that to me was weird but they grew on me and now I really like them.

The big fun comes in the early fall when you can collect boletes in the Uintas.

I have been really considering growing my own mushrooms as well. It seems pretty easy since there are some already growing in my bark in the yard. LOL!

I would like to try to grow the white button mushrooms since that's mainly what we eat. I might have to try the Stropharia since it tastes like potatoes. :-)

I would start with the Stropharia. They are more aggressive then other types of mushrooms and can out compete a lot of other bacteria and fungus for their food. Button mushrooms believe it or not are one of the harder mushroom types to grow. They need special pasteurized substrate that involves composting hay and manure. Then you only get one flush and have to start over. The stropharia on the other hand with eat pretty much any type of cellulose and they don't need to much more other than keeping the bed wet and occasionally recharging the bed with hardwood chips, straw, compost ect. Just make sure that know how to properly identify them as there is always the chance of a different type of mushroom colonizing your mushroom patch.

Are your Stropharia in full sun?

Are you the Greg with kiwis and persimmons?

Can anyone tell me what kind of mushrooms these are?

aageery

"Are your Stropharia in full sun?

Are you the Greg with kiwis and persimmons?"

Yes that is me.

At the moment I don't have a Stropharia patch, I had them under my artichokes but I am moving that bed. I plan on getting another patch going under my grapes or blackberries. They are happy filling in the shady areas under plants where nothing else will grow. The wood chips that they eat are a good mulch and the mushrooms help the plants by breaking down the nutrients in the wood so the plants can utilize it.

Ang H

"Can anyone tell me what kind of mushrooms these are? "

I am no expert when it comes to mushroom identification. There are a handful of beginner level mushrooms that I will collect for myself. I have learned the proper way to identify them and there aren't any looks a likes to get it wrong. It just so happens that these mushrooms are also the best tasting and most sought after so I don't feel the need to learn a lot about the other ones. If you want to start foraging for mushrooms you need to have a mentor that can teach you what to look for. I would recommend contacting the mushroom society of Utah. It can be a lot of fun collecting them I look forward to collecting boletes in the Uintahs every year.

https://www.facebook.com/Mushroom-Society-of-Utah-313824987872/

Also a good identification book, this one is a good beginners guide

http://www.amazon.com/All-That-Rain-Promises-More/dp/0898153883