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- Oyster mushrooms can be grown in many ways
- Especially uncomplicated: finished culture sets for home and garden
- Grow oyster mushrooms in the house
- Create oyster mushroom growing in the garden
- Which woods are suitable for oyster mushrooms?
- Tips
Oyster mushrooms can be e.g. pull on wood shavings yourself
Oyster mushrooms can be grown in many ways
The native oyster mushroom or even oyster mushroom is a typical winter mushroom: it feels only really well in low temperatures of less than 11 ° C. The tasty edible mushroom can be easily grown at home - for example in a shady garden corner. But even in the basement or on the balcony you can expect a rich harvest. In addition to ready-to-use cultures, you will also receive grain brood and so-called inoculation anchors, which are driven into the wood.
Especially uncomplicated: finished culture sets for home and garden
In contrast to the inoculation of logs for cultivation in the garden, the ready-to-cultivate sets allow a quick harvest. The mushroom spawns together with the substrate material such as straw pellets, wood shavings u. for self-mixing. Instructions are included. With appropriate humidity, the fruiting bodies appear within a few weeks.
Grow oyster mushrooms in the house
Like houseplants, fungal cultures occupy little space. They can be placed on the balcony, in the garden or in the cellar in a shaded spot at temperatures of around 10 ° C. The harvest in your own home works fine, provided it is dark and humid enough. Moreover, only a few minutes pass from the harvest to the cooking pot. You can not get any fresher mushrooms!
Create oyster mushroom growing in the garden
Mushrooms cultivated on wood bear fruiting bodies over several years. Oyster mushrooms grow exclusively on deciduous wood, with only wood suitable for inoculation with mushroom brood, which are not older than four to twelve weeks after beating. Fresh wood is - as well as seasoned - unsuitable for cultivation, as the mushroom mycelium is not able to grow through healthy wood. The body's defenses counteract this. Furthermore, it is important that the bark of the woods is still intact. In dry and thus cracked trunks and branches again the mycelium is no longer available the necessary moisture.
Which woods are suitable for oyster mushrooms?
With the woods one distinguishes between hardwoods and softwoods. Hardwood includes, for example, oak, beech, hornbeam, ash, maple, apple and pear trees, while wood is considered birch, linden, willow, alder or poplar softwood. On softwood cultivated mushrooms usually produce faster fruiting bodies than those on hardwoods. Often you can harvest on softwood still in the same, but certainly in the following year after inoculation; the culture stays active for about three years. Hardwood, on the other hand, can often only be harvested after one year, while the culture produces five to seven years of fruiting consecutively.
Particularly suitable woods for oyster mushroom cultivation are:
Tips
Oyster Mushrooms not only grow on wood, but also flourish in straw mixed with coffee grounds.