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My First Homegrown Mushrooms!

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I harvested and cooked my first Lion's Mane gourmet mushrooms tonight. I've been growing several types of gourmet mushrooms, starting with liquid culture and innoculating grain and then sawdust substrate. Today, I finally had a mushroom large enough to harvest and cook. I sliced it and fried it with butter and garlic, then served with fried ground beef patties. Basically, poor man's steak. Delicious! Hopefully, I will continue to have more mushrooms develop for fresh eating as well as dehydration for future use.

Martha

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b

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Mmm, growing lots of mushrooms would be so great!My sister gave me an oyster mushroom kit in 2022, and I got 3 progressively smaller flushes from it. The mushrooms were delicious. I cooked them in butter with some fresh parsley. First harvest was basically one serving 😋

The medium was recycled coffee grounds.

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party_music50
last year
When I was a kid, my uncles and I would regularly harvest wild white mushrooms from the field next to my parents' house. My father would never let me eat what we harvested. :p

Congrats on your gourmet mushrooms! I wish you continued success!
docmommich thanked party_music50
beesneeds
last year
How exciting, it's always so satisfying to have a project fruit to yum :)
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matthias_lang
last year
Congratulations, I know it is exciting! I grew oyster mushrooms once when my son gave me a bowl full of corn kernels and coffee grounds that he had "seeded". I got one nice harvest, then nasty looking things began to grow, so I put it on top of the soil in my vegetable garden to return to the earth. Well, when I went out to start the spring garden, there was another round of oyster mushroom!

I'd like to try again some day.
docmommich
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last year
Mattias,

Winecap mushrooms can be grown outside on a bed of straw or woodchips. Apparently, they can produce mushrooms for years, if the straw or woodchips are refreshed. You can also grow many oyster mushrooms on bales of straw or layered straw beds. Grain spawn for many varieties can be purchased from a number of reputable suppliers.

Martha
docmommich
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last year
Wow. Those look really good. It is frustrating how few mushrooms result from pretty significant inputs of work and substrate. That's why I'd like to get an outdoor setup going.

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