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- Which noble mushrooms you can breed yourself in the home garden
- Not all mushroom species can be grown
- The best cultivated mushrooms for the culture in the garden
- Breeding mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
- Shii-take (Lentinula edodes)
- Oystercatcher (Pleurotus ostreatus)
- Herb sidelark (Pleurotus eryngii)
- Brown cap (Stropharia rugosoannulata)
- Tips
Breeding mushrooms can be pulled at home
Which noble mushrooms you can breed yourself in the home garden
No question: who wants to enjoy tasty mushrooms, must get up early and also have good luck. After all, the coveted fruiting bodies do not grow on command and not always where they are supposed to. Fortunately, some types of mushrooms can also be grown comfortably in the home garden, for example on a straw bale or on freshly beaten wood.
Not all mushroom species can be grown
However, this does not apply to the most sought after noble mushrooms such as cep, morels or chanterelles. These are so-called mycorrhizal fungi, which can grow and thrive only in close symbiosis with certain living plants. So these species need a living environment that you can hardly reproduce in your garden. For this reason, it is only possible to cultivate saprophage mushroom species. These live in no close symbiosis, but draw their nutrients from rotting organic materials such as straw, wood or even coffee grounds.
The best cultivated mushrooms for the culture in the garden
The mushroom cultures for these mushrooms can be obtained in specialist shops as well as on the Internet. You can not only cultivate native mushroom species, but also take care of health-promoting medicinal mushrooms - such as Shii-Take or the Chinese Morel Mu-Err - yourself. These should have a particularly positive effect on humans and at least provide variety on the plate.
Breeding mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
This also known as Champignon de Paris species is one of the first successfully grown cultivated mushrooms ever. Today it is the most cultivated mushroom cultivated in the world, with different varieties such as white champignon, brown champignon and stone mushroom available today.
Shii-take (Lentinula edodes)
This well-known medicinal mushroom is especially appreciated in Chinese and Japanese cuisine and is rich in healthy vitamins and minerals. You can cultivate it on freshly beaten wood from oak, red and grove beech, birch, alder, cherry or sweet chestnut.
Oystercatcher (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Also known as oyster mushroom or veal mushroom, this is a native species found in the woods between December and March. You can also grow this extremely tasty mushroom on straw or on wood of red beech, birch, ash, alder, poplar, willow or healthy fruit trees.
Herb sidelark (Pleurotus eryngii)
This very tasty fungus, also known as man-litter seitling, is mainly native to southern and south-western Europe and particularly likes to grow on the dead roots of umbelliferae. Suitable substrate for their own breeding, however, is straw.
Brown cap (Stropharia rugosoannulata)
This is not, as often suspected, the common chestnut tube, but a cultivated form of the no less tasty reddish brown Giant Träuschlings. This can be easily pulled on inoculated straw bales.
Tips
Unfortunately, the stock sponge that is found in this country can not be grown in a home-grown environment. However, you can cultivate a close relative, the Japanese Stockschwämmchen. It is in second place behind the Shii-Take in popularity in its native Japan.